From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH 0/2] pagefault scalability alternative
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:43:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <198120000.1124815430@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508230909120.16321@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
>> > The basic idea is to have a spinlock per page table entry it seems.
>> A spinlock per page table, not a spinlock per page table entry.
>
> Thats a spinlock per pmd? Calling it per page table is a bit confusing
> since page table may refer to the whole tree. Could you develop
> a clearer way of referring to these locks that is not page_table_lock or
> ptl?
Isn't that per pagetable page? Though maybe that makes less sense with
large pages.
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-22 21:27 [RFT][PATCH 0/2] pagefault scalability alternative Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 1/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:31 ` [RFT][PATCH 2/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 0:25 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 7:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 11:20 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 13:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 13:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 5:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-23 7:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 22:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 0/2] " Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23 0:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 7:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 8:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 10:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23 16:43 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2005-08-23 18:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-27 22:10 ` Avi Kivity
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2005-08-24 14:27 linux
2005-08-24 15:21 ` Hugh Dickins
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