From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, paulus@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
jun.nakajima@intel.com, ak@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:46:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4143D491.6070006@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0409120131000.2297@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>I presume the hypervisor switch much incur the same sorts of costs as
>>a context switch?
>
>
> In the PPC64 and P4/HT case the spinning on a lock is a bad utilisation of
> the execution resources and that's what we're really trying to avoid, not
> necessarily cache thrashing from a context switch.
>
But isn't yielding to the hypervisor and thus causing it to schedule
something else basically the same as a context switch? (I don't know
anything about POWER).
If yes, then shouldn't your lock be a blocking lock anyway?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-12 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 0:02 [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-09 5:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-09 12:41 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-09 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-09 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-09 15:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:59 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 5:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-12 5:10 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 5:13 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-12 5:33 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:46 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-12 5:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 5:02 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-12 6:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 6:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-12 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-12 5:27 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-13 12:21 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention #2 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 7:49 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 16:10 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 10:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-12 10:43 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-09 15:43 ` [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64 Anton Blanchard
2004-09-09 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 21:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-09 22:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 23:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-10 0:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-10 0:35 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 0:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-10 1:42 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 1:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 2:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 2:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 2:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 3:24 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-10 12:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 12:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-10 3:23 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 7:56 ` Anton Blanchard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-13 0:45 [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Nakajima, Jun
2004-09-13 1:35 Nakajima, Jun
2004-09-13 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
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