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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: bsuparna@in.ibm.com
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:32:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010131233252.I11607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA2569E5.004D51A7.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA2569E5.004D51A7.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>; from bsuparna@in.ibm.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +0530

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +0530, bsuparna@in.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Do the following modifications to your wait queue extension sound
> reasonable ?
> 
> 1. Change add_wait_queue to add elements to the end of queue (fifo, by
> default) and instead have an add_wait_queue_lifo() routine that adds to the
> head of the queue ?

Cache efficiency: you wake up the task whose data set is most likely
to be in L1 cache by waking it before its triggering event is flushed
from cache.

--Stephen
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       reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CA2569E5.004D51A7.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
2001-01-31 23:32 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-02-06 13:50 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains bsuparna
2001-02-06 14:07 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found] <CA2569EA.00506BBC.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
2001-02-05 15:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-05 14:31 bsuparna
     [not found] <CA2569E9.004A4E23.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
2001-02-05 12:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-04 13:24 bsuparna
2001-02-02 15:31 bsuparna
2001-02-01 14:44 bsuparna
2001-02-01 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 16:08   ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 16:49     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:34         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 17:49           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:09             ` Chaitanya Tumuluri
2001-02-01 20:33             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 20:56               ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 20:59                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 21:17                   ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 21:44               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 22:07               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02 12:02                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-05 12:19                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 21:28                     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-05 22:58                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 23:06                         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 23:16                           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-06  0:19                         ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-03 20:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 11:03                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 12:00                     ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-05 15:03                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 15:19                         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 17:20                           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 17:29                             ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 18:49                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 19:04                                 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 19:09                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 22:09                         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-05 16:56                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 16:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 19:08                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:49           ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:58             ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:32               ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-01 18:59                 ` yodaiken
2001-02-01 19:33             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 18:51           ` bcrl
2001-02-01 16:16   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:41       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 18:14         ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 18:25           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:39             ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-01 18:48             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 18:57               ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 19:00                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 19:32           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 20:46             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 21:25               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02 11:51                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-02 14:04                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02  4:18           ` bcrl
2001-02-02 12:12             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 20:04         ` Chaitanya Tumuluri
2001-02-01 13:20 bsuparna
2001-02-01  7:58 bsuparna
2001-02-01 12:39 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01  4:55 bsuparna
2001-02-01 12:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 16:30   ` Chaitanya Tumuluri
2001-02-01  3:59 bsuparna
2001-01-31 13:58 bsuparna
2001-01-30 14:09 bsuparna

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