From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use local_t for page statistics
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:01:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601070401.47618.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BF2D03.2030908@yahoo.com.au>
On Saturday 07 January 2006 03:52, Nick Piggin wrote:
> No. On many load/store architectures there is no good way to do local_t,
> so something like ppc32 or ia64 just uses all atomic operations for
well, they're just broken and need to be fixed to not do that.
Also I bet with some tricks a seqlock like setup could be made to work.
> local_t, and ppc64 uses 3 counters per-cpu thus tripling the cache
> footprint.
and ppc64 has big caches so this also shouldn't be a problem.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 21:53 Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-07 0:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-07 1:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-07 2:52 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-07 3:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-07 3:19 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-07 3:25 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-07 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-07 4:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-09 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-07 3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-09 18:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-09 20:52 ` Christoph Lameter
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