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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use deltas to replace atomic inc
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:43:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050822154300.GA29976@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508220823150.6260@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:24:50AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> > (Your deltas seem sensible, but hard to place the reaccumulation:
> > I worry that you may be taking page_table_lock more just for that.)
> 
> The page_table_lock is taken using a spin_trylock. Its skipped if 
> contended.

Hmm - doesn't try lock cause a cache line bounce on the bus too? 
I think it does. That would mean its latency is not much better 
than a real spinlock (assuming it doesn't have to spin) 

-Andi
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-17 22:17 pagefault scalability patches Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 22:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 22:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 23:12       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 23:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:30         ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 23:33           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:44             ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 23:52               ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-17 23:58                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-18  0:47                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 16:09                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  2:13     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-18  0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 16:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-18 20:16   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-19  1:22     ` [PATCH] use mm_counter macros for nr_pte since its also under ptl Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  3:17       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  3:51         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  1:33     ` pagefault scalability patches Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  3:53     ` [RFC] Concept for delayed counter updates in mm_struct Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  4:29       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  4:34         ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19  4:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:06           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:33           ` [PATCH] mm_struct counter deltas in task_struct Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:35           ` [PATCH] Use deltas to replace atomic inc Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:58             ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22  3:32               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  3:48                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-22  4:06                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  4:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-22 13:23                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 14:22                         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 15:24                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 15:43                             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-22 16:24                               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 20:30                           ` [PATCH] mm_struct counter deltas V2 Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 20:31                           ` [PATCH] Use deltas to replace atomic inc V2 Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  2:09   ` pagefault scalability patches Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-18  2:00 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-18  8:38   ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-18 16:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  2:04       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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