From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Re-tune x86 uaccess code for PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:12:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813181257.GV19750@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520A7651.8020301@zytor.com>
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:09:21AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 04:04 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The x86 user access functions (*_user) were originally very well tuned,
> > with partial inline code and other optimizations.
> >
> > Then over time various new checks -- particularly the sleep checks for
> > a voluntary preempt kernel -- destroyed a lot of the tunings
> >
>
> Hi Andi,
>
> Are you going to respin this patchset to address the feedback?
Yes. I'm dropping all the user checks.
But you could already merge the first patch, it's independent
of all the others and not affected by the feedback.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-09 23:04 Re-tune x86 uaccess code for PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86: Add 1/2/4/8 byte optimization to 64bit __copy_{from,to}_user_inatomic Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 02/13] x86: Include linux/sched.h in asm/uaccess.h Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 03/13] tree-sweep: Include linux/sched.h for might_sleep users Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 04/13] Move might_sleep and friends from kernel.h to sched.h Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 05/13] sched: mark should_resched() __always_inline Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 06/13] x86: Add 32bit versions of SAVE_ALL/RESTORE_ALL to calling.h Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 07/13] Add might_fault_debug_only() Andi Kleen
2013-08-14 18:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 08/13] x86: Move cond_resched into the out of line put_user code Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 09/13] x86: Move cond_resched into the out of line get_user code Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 10/13] x86: Move cond resched for copy_{from,to}_user into low level code 64bit Andi Kleen
2013-08-10 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-10 16:10 ` Andi Kleen
2013-08-10 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-10 18:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-10 19:05 ` Jörn Engel
2013-08-20 21:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-08-15 5:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 11/13] sched: Inline the need_resched test into the caller for _cond_resched Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 12/13] x86: move __copy_*_nocache might fault check out of line Andi Kleen
2013-08-09 23:04 ` [PATCH 13/13] x86: drop cond rescheds from __copy_{from,to}_user Andi Kleen
2013-08-10 4:42 ` Re-tune x86 uaccess code for PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-10 5:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-08-10 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-10 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-10 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-10 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-10 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-10 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-10 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-11 4:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-08-11 4:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-11 4:36 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-08-11 4:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-11 5:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-08-13 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-13 18:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-08-14 18:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-14 22:08 ` Andi Kleen
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