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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	anton@samba.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Peter Keilty <Peter.Keilty@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Global spinlock vs local bit spin locks
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:35:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B28B44.9090606@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050617044611.GF3913@holomorphy.com>

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> 
> I'd feel far more comfortable with this if the lockbit resided in the
> page. Also, compare it to akpm's solution.
> 

akpm's solution is alright. They perform similarly on the workload in
question. Of course, the bitlock will scale quite a lot better if you
pushed it and will automatically be localised per device and have NUMA
locality, etc.

As far as page flags go - I agree but I didn't want to use one up.
This is very localised and I don't think it is particularly worse
than what was there before, so I think we can get away with it for
the moment.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-17  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-17  4:21 Global spinlock vs local bit spin locks Nick Piggin
2005-06-17  4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17  8:50   ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-17  4:45 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-17  4:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-17  4:52   ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17  8:35   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-06-17  8:45     ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-17  9:21       ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-17  9:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-17  8:54     ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-17  9:15       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-17  9:27       ` Nick Piggin

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