From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
David.Mosberger@acm.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:31:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E897FD.6060506@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10613.1122538148@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:41:18 +0200,
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>i'm wondering, is the switch_stack at the same/similar place as
>>next->thread_info? If yes then we could simply do a
>>prefetch(next->thread_info).
>
>
> No, they can be up to 30K apart. See include/asm-ia64/ptrace.h.
> thread_info is at ~0xda0, depending on the config. The switch_stack
> can be as high as 0x7bd0 in the kernel stack, depending on why the task
> is sleeping.
>
Just a minor point, I agree with David: I'd like it to be called
prefetch_task(), because some architecture may want to prefetch other
memory.
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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
David.Mosberger@acm.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:31:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E897FD.6060506@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10613.1122538148@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:41:18 +0200,
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>i'm wondering, is the switch_stack at the same/similar place as
>>next->thread_info? If yes then we could simply do a
>>prefetch(next->thread_info).
>
>
> No, they can be up to 30K apart. See include/asm-ia64/ptrace.h.
> thread_info is at ~0xda0, depending on the config. The switch_stack
> can be as high as 0x7bd0 in the kernel stack, depending on why the task
> is sleeping.
>
Just a minor point, I agree with David: I'd like it to be called
prefetch_task(), because some architecture may want to prefetch other
memory.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-28 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-27 22:07 Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-27 22:07 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-27 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27 23:23 ` david mosberger
2005-07-27 23:23 ` david mosberger
2005-07-28 7:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 7:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 8:09 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-28 8:09 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-28 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 8:31 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-07-28 8:31 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 8:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 8:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 9:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 9:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-28 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 19:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-28 19:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 7:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 7:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 8:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-29 8:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-07-29 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-31 16:27 ` hashed spinlocks Daniel Walker
2005-07-31 18:46 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-31 19:06 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-31 19:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-31 19:16 ` Daniel Walker
2005-07-29 9:17 ` Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function Peter Zijlstra
2005-07-29 9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-07-29 10:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 10:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 7:22 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 7:22 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 8:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 9:02 ` Russell King
2005-07-29 9:02 ` Russell King
2005-07-29 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 7:38 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29 7:38 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29 7:45 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29 7:45 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29 8:02 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:02 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:08 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:08 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:30 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:30 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 8:39 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 8:39 ` Chen, Kenneth W
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2005-07-29 15:18 linux
2005-07-29 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar
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