Re: [RFC] non-refcounted pages, application to slab?

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:54:08AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Nick Piggin a ecrit :
> 
> >@@ -2604,10 +2604,10 @@ static inline void *__cache_alloc(kmem_c
> > 
> > 	local_irq_save(save_flags);
> > 	objp = ____cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
> >+	prefetchw(objp);
> > 	local_irq_restore(save_flags);
> > 	objp = cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(cachep, flags, objp,
> > 					    __builtin_return_address(0));
> >-	prefetchw(objp);
> > 	return objp;
> > }
> 
> I'm not sure why you moved this prefetchw(obj) : This is not related to 
> your 'non-refcounting' part, is it ?
> 

Stray hunk. Thanks.

Nick

> When I added this prefetchw in slab code, I did place it *after* the 
> local_irq_restore(save_flags); because I was not sure if the 
> serialization/barrier (popf) would force the cpu (x86/x86_64 in mind) to 
> either :
> - finish all the loads (even if they are speculative/hints) (so giving a 
> bad latency)
> - cancel the speculative loads (so prefetchw() *before* the 
> local_irq_restore() would be useless.
> 
Makes sense.

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