From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"cl@linux.com" <cl@linux.com>,
"npiggin@kernel.dk" <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:05:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512090534.GE1030@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305190936.3795.1.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Hello,
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:02:15AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > I don't think @maxfuzzy is necessary there. I wrote this before but
> > why can't we track the actual deviation instead of the number of
> > deviation events?
>
> Thats roughly same thing (BATCH multiplicator factor apart)
>
> Most percpu_counter users for a given percpu_counter object use a given
> BATCH, dont they ?
Well, @maxfuzzy is much harder than @batch. It's way less intuitive.
Although I haven't really thought about it that much, I think it might
be possible to eliminate it. Maybe I'm confused. I'll take another
look later but if someone can think of something, please jump right
in.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 8:10 [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 8:10 ` [patch v2 1/5] percpu_counter: fix code for 32bit systems for UP Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 8:10 ` [patch v2 2/5] lglock: convert it to work with dynamically allocated structure Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 8:10 ` [patch v2 3/5] percpu_counter: use lglock to protect percpu data Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 8:10 ` [patch v2 4/5] percpu_counter: use atomic64 for counter in SMP Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 9:34 ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-12 2:40 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 8:10 ` [patch v2 5/5] percpu_counter: preemptless __per_cpu_counter_add Shaohua Li
2011-05-11 9:28 ` [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 2:48 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-12 8:21 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 8:55 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-12 8:59 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-12 9:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-12 9:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-12 9:05 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-05-13 3:09 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-13 4:37 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-13 5:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 5:28 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-13 6:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 7:33 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-13 14:51 ` [patch] percpu_counter: scalability works Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 15:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 16:35 ` [patch V2] " Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 16:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-13 22:03 ` [patch V3] " Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 0:58 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16 6:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 6:37 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16 6:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 7:15 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16 7:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 8:34 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-16 9:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 14:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 0:55 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-17 4:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 5:22 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-17 9:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 9:11 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-17 9:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 9:50 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-17 12:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 12:45 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-17 13:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 13:04 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-17 13:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-17 14:02 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-17 14:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-05-18 1:00 ` Shaohua Li
2011-05-12 14:38 ` [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement Christoph Lameter
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