From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5se80oe.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0911041409020.7409@V090114053VZO-1> (Christoph Lameter's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:14:41 -0500 (EST)")
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> One price to pay for these improvements is the need to scan over all percpu
> counters when the actual count values are needed.
Do you have numbers how costly alloc_percpu() is? I wonder what this
does to fork() overhead.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 19:14 Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04 19:17 ` [MM] Remove rss batching from copy_page_range() Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04 21:02 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-04 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05 8:27 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-04 21:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-11-04 23:49 ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic Dave Jones
2009-11-05 15:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05 15:36 ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic V2 Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 1:11 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 3:23 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 17:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 19:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 19:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 19:20 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 19:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-10 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-10 23:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 4:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 4:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05 1:16 ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05 15:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05 23:42 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-17 6:48 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17 7:31 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17 9:34 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17 17:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-19 0:48 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-23 8:51 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-23 14:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-24 8:02 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-24 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-25 1:23 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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