From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [cpuops cmpxchg V2 3/5] irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D08EE11.3050603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D08EDA9.3090801@kernel.org>
On 12/15/2010 08:32 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 05:28 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> The irq work queue is a per cpu object and it is sufficient for
>> synchronization if per cpu atomics are used. Doing so simplifies
>> the code and reduces the overhead of the code.
>>
>> Before:
>>
>> christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 451 8 1 460 1cc kernel/irq_work.o
>>
>> After:
>>
>> christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 438 8 1 447 1bf kernel/irq_work.o
>>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>
> Peter, can you please ack this one?
>
> Thanks.
>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
... for tis whole series.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-15 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 16:28 [cpuops cmpxchg V2 0/5] Cmpxchg and xchg operations Christoph Lameter
2010-12-14 16:28 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 1/5] percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support Christoph Lameter
2010-12-17 14:55 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-14 16:28 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 2/5] x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations Christoph Lameter
2010-12-17 15:22 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-14 16:28 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 3/5] irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics Christoph Lameter
2010-12-15 16:32 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-15 16:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-12-15 16:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-15 17:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-15 17:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-15 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15 17:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-18 15:32 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-14 16:28 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 4/5] vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable Christoph Lameter
2010-12-15 16:45 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-15 17:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-14 16:28 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 5/5] cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics Christoph Lameter
2010-12-14 16:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-12-14 16:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-14 16:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-14 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-14 17:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-14 17:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-14 17:29 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-14 17:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-15 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15 16:29 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-15 16:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15 16:39 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-16 16:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-16 18:13 ` x86: Use this_cpu_has for thermal_interrupt Christoph Lameter
2010-12-18 15:35 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-21 0:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-30 11:29 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-30 18:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-31 12:43 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-16 18:14 ` x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation Christoph Lameter
2010-12-16 18:15 ` gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup Christoph Lameter
2010-12-18 15:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-16 18:16 ` acpi throttling: Use this_cpu_has and simplify code Christoph Lameter
2010-12-18 15:50 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-21 1:52 ` ykzhao
2010-12-21 22:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-12-21 4:28 ` Len Brown
2010-12-16 18:19 ` [cpuops cmpxchg V2 5/5] cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-16 18:55 ` Tejun Heo
2010-12-16 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15 16:47 ` Tejun Heo
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