From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
steiner@sgi.com, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifier #v11
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:45:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804062244110.18148@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080405002330.GF14784@duo.random>
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> In short when working with single pages it's a waste to block the
> secondary-mmu page fault, because it's zero cost to invalidate_page
> before put_page. Not even GRU need to do that.
That depends on what the notifier is being used for. Some serialization
with the external mappings has to be done anyways. And its cleaner to have
one API that does a lock/unlock scheme. Atomic operations can easily lead
to races.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 20:55 [ofa-general] [patch 0/9] [RFC] EMM Notifier V2 Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 1/9] EMM Notifier: The notifier calls Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 6:49 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 10:59 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-02 11:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 14:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-02 17:59 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 19:03 ` [ofa-general] EMM: Fixup return value handling of emm_notify() Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:25 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-03 15:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-03 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:05 ` [ofa-general] EMM: Require single threadedness for registration Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:01 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 22:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 1:24 ` EMM: disable other notifiers before register and unregister Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 10:40 ` [ofa-general] " Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-03 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-03 19:20 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 20:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-04 12:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-04 20:20 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH] mmu notifier #v11 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-04 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-05 0:23 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-07 5:45 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-04-07 6:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:53 ` [ofa-general] Re: [patch 1/9] EMM Notifier: The notifier calls Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [ofa-general] [patch 2/9] Move tlb flushing into free_pgtables Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [ofa-general] [patch 3/9] Convert i_mmap_lock to i_mmap_sem Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 4/9] Remove tlb pointer from the parameters of unmap vmas Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 5/9] Convert anon_vma lock to rw_sem and refcount Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:56 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 6/9] This patch exports zap_page_range as it is needed by XPMEM Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 7/9] Locking rules for taking multiple mmap_sem locks Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 8/9] XPMEM: The device driver Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 9/9] XPMEM: Simple example Christoph Lameter
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