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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	"Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" <shai@scalex86.org>,
	pravin b shelar <pravin.shelar@calsoftinc.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] NUMA futex hashing
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:26:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D8BB43.9070908@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D8BA39.5020405@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:

> No we shouldn't slow them down. I'd be interested to see whether
> locking is significantly sped up with this new data structure,
> though.

OTOH, maybe you don't need a new data structure. Maybe you could
use the hash and check that for a match on a private futex before
trying to find a possible shared futex.

Locking I guess becomes no more of a problem than now, and in some
cases maybe much less. So OK, I stand corrected.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08  7:07 [RFC] NUMA futex hashing Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-08-08  9:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 20:31   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-08-08  9:37 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-08  9:58   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08 10:07     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-08  9:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08 10:10   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 10:36     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08 12:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 12:47         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-08 12:57           ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 14:39             ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-08 15:11               ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 15:36                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-08 16:22                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 16:26                     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-08-08 16:49                     ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-08 16:08                 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 16:34                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 16:49                     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-08 16:59                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-09  1:56                       ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 16:58                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-08 17:08                     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-09  1:58                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-09  6:26                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-09  6:43                         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15 19:10                           ` [PATCH 0/3] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes, SMP and NUMA improvements Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15 20:15                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-16  8:05                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-16  9:30                               ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-16 10:10                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-16 10:30                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-16 10:36                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-04  7:16                             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-05 17:49                               ` [PATCH] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes Eric Dumazet
2007-04-05 20:43                                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-06  1:19                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06  5:53                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-06 11:50                                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06  6:05                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-06 17:41                                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-06 12:26                                 ` Shared futexes (was [PATCH] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes) Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-06 13:02                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-06 13:15                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-06 13:15                                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06 13:22                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-06 13:40                                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06 12:31                                 ` [PATCH] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-07  8:43                                 ` [PATCH, take4] " Eric Dumazet
2007-04-07  9:30                                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-07 10:00                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-11  7:22                                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-11  8:14                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-11  9:23                                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-11  9:30                                             ` Pierre Peiffer
2007-04-11  9:39                                               ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-11  9:40                                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-11  9:35                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-12  1:57                                               ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-07 11:18                                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-04-07 11:54                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-07 16:40                                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-07 22:15                                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-10  9:21                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-11  9:19                                   ` [PATCH, take5] " Eric Dumazet
2007-04-11 12:23                                     ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-26 12:55                                     ` [PATCH, take6] " Eric Dumazet
2007-04-26 13:35                                       ` Pierre Peiffer
2007-03-15 19:13                           ` [PATCH 1/3] FUTEX : introduce PROCESS_PRIVATE semantic Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15 19:16                           ` [PATCH 2/3] FUTEX : introduce private hashtables Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15 20:25                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-15 21:09                               ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-03-15 21:29                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-15 22:59                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-15 19:20                           ` [PATCH 3/3] FUTEX : NUMA friendly global hashtable Eric Dumazet
2006-08-09  0:13     ` [RFC] NUMA futex hashing Ravikiran G Thirumalai

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