From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: Only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:13:13 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1109271109570.9569@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOtvUMcvwWFxxxv7tsOj6FO-wrHAU8EYc+U=9u8yT=cz7XajBA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> My hope is to come up with a way to do more code on the CPU doing the
> flush_all (which
> as you said is a rare and none performance critical code path anyway)
> and by that gain the ability
> to do the job without interrupting CPUs that do not need to flush
> their per cpu pages.
You may not need that for the kmem_cache_destroy(). At close time there
are no users left and no one should be accessing the cache anyways. You
could flush the whole shebang without IPIs.
Problem is that there is no guarantee that other processes will not still
try to access the cache. If you want to guarantee that then change some
settings in either struct kmem_cache or struct kmem_cache_cpu that makes
allocation and freeing impossible before flushing the per cpu pages.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-25 8:54 [PATCH 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-25 8:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] smp: Introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask function Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-25 11:37 ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-26 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-25 8:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm: Move arm over to generic on_each_cpu_mask Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-25 8:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] tile: Move tile to use " Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-25 8:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: Only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 1:52 ` Shaohua Li
2011-09-26 6:47 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 15:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-27 7:27 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-27 16:13 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2011-09-26 7:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-26 8:39 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 7:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-25 8:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] slub: Only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 6:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-26 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-26 8:07 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 10:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-26 8:10 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 7:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-26 8:35 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 9:28 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-09-26 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-26 12:05 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 13:49 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 7:20 ` [PATCH 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-26 8:43 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-09-26 8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-28 13:00 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-10-02 8:44 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-02 14:58 ` Chris Metcalf
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