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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
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	Andrew Morton
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	"Paul E. McKenney"
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	Josh Triplett <josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.org>,
	Linus Torvalds
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	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk
	<mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:36:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CD091A.4060009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456270120-7560-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

On 02/23/2016 03:28 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patchset implementing a cache for the CPU number of the
> currently running thread in user-space.
> 
> Benchmarks comparing this approach to a getcpu based on system call on
> ARM show a 44x speedup. They show a 14x speedup on x86-64 compared to
> executing lsl from a vDSO through glibc.
> 
> I'm added a man page in the changelog of patch 1/3, which shows an
> example usage of this new system call.
> 
> This series is based on v4.5-rc5, submitted for Linux 4.6.
> 
> Feedback is welcome,
> 

What is the resulting context switch overhead?

	-hpa

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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>, Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:36:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CD091A.4060009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456270120-7560-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

On 02/23/2016 03:28 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patchset implementing a cache for the CPU number of the
> currently running thread in user-space.
> 
> Benchmarks comparing this approach to a getcpu based on system call on
> ARM show a 44x speedup. They show a 14x speedup on x86-64 compared to
> executing lsl from a vDSO through glibc.
> 
> I'm added a man page in the changelog of patch 1/3, which shows an
> example usage of this new system call.
> 
> This series is based on v4.5-rc5, submitted for Linux 4.6.
> 
> Feedback is welcome,
> 

What is the resulting context switch overhead?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 23:28 [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6 Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found] ` <1456270120-7560-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-23 23:28   ` [PATCH v4 1/5] getcpu_cache system call: cache CPU number of running thread Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24 11:11     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-24 17:17       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25 23:32       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-02-25 23:32         ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-02-26 17:47         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]     ` <1456270120-7560-2-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-25  9:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25  9:56         ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]         ` <20160225095635.GO6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-25 16:55           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25 16:55             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]             ` <390571988.7745.1456419326288.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-25 17:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 17:04                 ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                 ` <20160225170416.GV6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-25 17:17                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25 17:17                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                     ` <2135602720.7810.1456420671941.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-26 11:33                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-26 11:33                         ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                         ` <20160226113304.GA6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-26 16:29                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 16:29                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 17:20                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                               ` <967083634.8940.1456507201156.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-26 18:01                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 18:01                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 20:24                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-26 20:24                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-26 23:04                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                                       ` <7096DA23-3908-40DC-A46B-C4CF2252CEE8-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27  0:40                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-27  0:40                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                           ` <1150363257.9781.1456533630895.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27  6:24                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27  6:24                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                                               ` <56D14132.5050100-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27 14:15                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-27 14:15                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                   ` <2053850250.10158.1456582501604.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27 14:58                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-27 14:58                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                                                       ` <20160227145809.GD6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27 18:35                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-27 18:35                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-27 23:53                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                             ` <CA+55aFwcgwRxvVBz5kk_3O8dESXAGJ4KHBkf=pSXjiS7Xh4NwA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                                                               ` <1082926946.10326.1456619994590.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
     [not found]                                                                 ` <1082926946.10326.1456619994590.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-28  0:57                                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-28  0:57                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                                                                     ` <CA+55aFwZY1BR5NdjAP-rytd29hE2EZEXgcaBKjepWFFj+oR1SA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-28 14:32                                                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-28 14:32                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                                         ` <1538518747.10504.1456669948568.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-29 10:35                                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:35                                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                                                                             ` <20160229103506.GJ6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-01 20:23                                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-01 20:23                                                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                                                 ` <676569856.13488.1456863792603.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-01 21:32                                                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 21:32                                                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                                                                                     ` <20160301213202.GY6357-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-01 21:36                                                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 21:36                                                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 21:47                                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 10:34                                                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:32                                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:32                                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                                                                     ` <20160229103221.GI6356-ndre7Fmf5hadTX5a5knrm8zTDFooKrT+cvkQGrU6aU0@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-29 10:39                                                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 10:39                                                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 12:41                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-29 12:41                                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                                           ` <1811549980.11849.1456749709589.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-29 13:08                                                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 13:08                                                                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 18:19                                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-29 18:19                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 10:44                                                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-02 10:44                                                                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-01 18:25                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-01 18:25                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                                                                     ` <56D5DEA8.3040908-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-01 18:40                                                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-01 18:40                                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                                           ` <CA+55aFysWipEagSdgeXbLx+Au4vomvyttdNFJtM+HffmBECQiA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-27 19:01                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27 19:01                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-28 13:07                                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-28 13:07                                                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
     [not found]                                                               ` <CAMuHMdV2dHsJfchyHBnQEAVEMSQ+1N7X4-iqGZ7K7J=Lf8qs4A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-28 16:21                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-28 16:21                                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-29 10:01                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:01                                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-27 15:04                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27 15:04                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-24  1:36   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-02-24  1:36     ` [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6 H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-24  4:09     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]       ` <1452699925.6549.1456286963485.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-24 20:07         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-24 20:07           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]           ` <F6BC367F-127F-4254-8E4E-E7BF60A027F3-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-24 22:38             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24 22:38               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] getcpu_cache: ARM resume notifier Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] getcpu_cache: wire up ARM system call Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]   ` <1456270120-7560-4-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-24  0:54     ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  0:54       ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  1:05     ` [PATCH v4 (updated)] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24  1:05       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]       ` <1456275925-12071-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-24  5:28         ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  5:28           ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  6:54         ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  6:54           ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] getcpu_cache: x86 32/64 resume notifier Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] getcpu_cache: wire up x86 32/64 system call Mathieu Desnoyers

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