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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Marcus Sundberg <erammsu@kieray1.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mm->mmap_sem
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:54:34 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14323.31146.614744.699106@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909292012290.31287-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:17:01 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

> Yikes. I think the best solution is to just put the process that owns
> the framebuffer to be put to sleep just before accel engine access. Wake
> it up once its done. 

On SMP, that still requires inter-CPU interrupts to all processors in
the worst case, as the process may already be running elsewhere.  It
doesn't get around the IPI cost.

--Stephen
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-30 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-22 21:02 mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-24  0:07 ` mm->mmap_sem Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-24 14:59   ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-24 18:09     ` mm->mmap_sem Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-25  1:24       ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-25 14:55         ` mm->mmap_sem Andrea Arcangeli
1999-09-25 16:50           ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-25 17:06             ` mm->mmap_sem Andrea Arcangeli
1999-09-26  1:19               ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-26 14:07                 ` mm->mmap_sem Andrea Arcangeli
1999-09-27  8:55                 ` mm->mmap_sem Marcus Sundberg
1999-09-27 19:31                   ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-29 23:00                     ` mm->mmap_sem Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-30  0:17                       ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-30  0:23                         ` mm->mmap_sem Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-09-30 14:59                           ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-30 15:15                             ` mm->mmap_sem Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-09-30 16:05                               ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-30 14:54                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-09-27 14:16                 ` mm->mmap_sem Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-27 20:22                   ` mm->mmap_sem James Simmons
1999-09-27 14:13             ` mm->mmap_sem Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-09-27  8:08     ` mm->mmap_sem Neil Conway

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