From: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, <tglx@linutronix.de>,
<mingo@elte.hu>, <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
<eranian@google.com>, <brgerst@gmail.com>,
<robert.richter@amd.com>, <Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com>,
<x86@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:57:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111207195753.GD665@escobedo.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111202112050.GC411@escobedo.osrc.amd.com>
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:01:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 12/01/2011 12:36 PM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> > >
> > > So I assume, if you have 10000s of processes on a legacy 32bit system
> > > that never do any FPU stuff or SSE optimizations, you might indeed waste
> > > a couple of megabytes. I don't think thats very realistic, but that's
> > > just my opinion.
> > >
> >
> > A couple of megabytes of *lowmem*...
>
> Ok, I'll rework that part, so that preallocation only happens on systems
> that support non-lazy states. That means patch #7 is going away and
> patch #8 is getting slightly bigger. This may take a few days as I have
> to test that again.
The reworked LWP patches are ready and will follow shortly. I also added
a Kconfig option to completely disable support for non-lazy states,
allowing to completely avoid preallocation of the xstate area if
required.
Did you look at the other patches already?
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-29 12:41 [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86, xsave: warn on #NM exceptions caused by the kernel Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86, xsave: cleanup fpu/xsave support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86, xsave: cleanup fpu/xsave signal frame setup Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, xsave: rework fpu/xsave support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86, xsave: remove unused code Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86, xsave: more cleanups Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86, xsave: remove lazy allocation of xstate area Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86, xsave: add support for non-lazy xstates Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86, xsave: add kernel support for AMDs Lightweight Profiling (LWP) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Andi Kleen
2011-11-30 17:37 ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-30 21:52 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-01 20:36 ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-02 2:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-02 11:20 ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-07 19:57 ` Hans Rosenfeld [this message]
2011-12-07 20:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86, xsave: add support for non-lazy xstates Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-07 20:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86, xsave: add kernel support for AMDs Lightweight Profiling (LWP) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-05 10:22 ` [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Ingo Molnar
2011-12-16 16:07 ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12 ` [RFC 1/5] x86, perf: Implement software-activation of lwp Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12 ` [RFC 2/5] perf: adds prototype for a new perf-context-type Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12 ` [RFC 3/5] perf: adds a new pmu-initialization-call Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12 ` [RFC 4/5] x86, perf: implements lwp-perf-integration (rc1) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-18 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-18 15:22 ` Benjamin Block
2011-12-18 23:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 9:09 ` Robert Richter
2011-12-19 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 11:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 11:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 11:58 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 18:13 ` Benjamin
2011-12-20 8:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 9:47 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-20 10:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 15:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-20 18:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 0:07 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-21 12:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 12:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-21 13:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 22:49 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-23 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 11:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-12-23 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 15:48 ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-20 18:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 22:47 ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-21 12:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 13:55 ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-16 16:12 ` [RFC 5/5] x86, perf: adds support for the LWP threshold-int Hans Rosenfeld
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