From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"minchan.kim@gmail.com" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
cl@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261998361.7135.78.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50863609fb8263f3a0f9111a304a9dbc.squirrel@webmail-b.css.fujitsu.com>
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 19:57 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> - because pmd has some trobles because of quicklists..I don't wanted to
> touch free routine of them.
I really doubt the value of that quicklist horror. IIRC x86 stopped
supporting that a while ago as well.
I would suspect the page-table retention scheme possible with RCU freed
page tables could be far more efficient than quicklists, but then that's
all speculation since I don't know what kind of workloads we're talking
about and this glaring lack of implementation to compare.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"minchan.kim@gmail.com" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
cl@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261998361.7135.78.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50863609fb8263f3a0f9111a304a9dbc.squirrel@webmail-b.css.fujitsu.com>
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 19:57 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> - because pmd has some trobles because of quicklists..I don't wanted to
> touch free routine of them.
I really doubt the value of that quicklist horror. IIRC x86 stopped
supporting that a while ago as well.
I would suspect the page-table retention scheme possible with RCU freed
page tables could be far more efficient than quicklists, but then that's
all speculation since I don't know what kind of workloads we're talking
about and this glaring lack of implementation to compare.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-28 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-25 1:51 [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-27 9:47 ` Minchan Kim
2009-12-27 9:47 ` Minchan Kim
2009-12-27 23:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-27 23:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-27 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-27 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 0:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 0:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 0:57 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-28 0:57 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-28 1:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 1:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 2:58 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-28 2:58 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-28 3:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 3:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-29 9:54 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-29 9:54 ` Balbir Singh
2009-12-27 12:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-27 12:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 0:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 0:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 1:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 1:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 9:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 9:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-02 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-02 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 3:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 3:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 7:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 7:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 15:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 15:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 16:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 16:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 13:48 ` [RFC PATCH -v2] speculative " Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 13:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 10:57 ` [RFC PATCH] asynchronous " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 10:57 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-28 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 10:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 10:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-12-28 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-28 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-02 21:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-02 21:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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