From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Event counters [1/3]: Basic counter functionality
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:08:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0601031102560.20946@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43B63931.6000307@yahoo.com.au>
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> So I'm not exactly sure why such a patch as this is wanted now? Are there
> any more xxx_page_state hotspots? (I admit to only looking at page faults,
> page allocator, and page reclaim).
The proposed patchset is based on the zoned counter patchset. This means
that critical counters have been converted to use different macros. The
following discussion of Marcelo and Nick on nr_mapped etc is not relevant
to this patch since nr_mapped etc are not event counters but are handled
by the zoned counters.
The event counters are the leftover vanity counters that are referenced
only for display in /proc and the proposed approach is to only allow
increments and allow racy updates.
Then these lightweight counters are also used to optimize away the numa
specific counters in the per cpu structures.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-03 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-20 23:57 Christoph Lameter
2005-12-20 23:57 ` [RFC] Event counters [2/3]: Convert inc_page_state -> count_event Christoph Lameter
2005-12-20 23:57 ` [RFC] Event counters [3/3]: Convert NUMA counters to event counters Christoph Lameter
2005-12-21 22:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-12-31 6:46 ` [RFC] Event counters [1/3]: Basic counter functionality Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-31 7:54 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-31 20:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-02 21:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-03 5:11 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-03 10:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-03 13:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-03 12:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-03 5:01 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-03 19:08 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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