From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:25:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ekrx4v2m.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1x293-2nT-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:50:09 +0100")
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> but i'm quite strongly convinced that 'getting rid' of the 'pte chain
> overhead' in favor of questionable lowmem space gains for a dying
> (high-end server) platform is very shortsighted. [getting rid of them
> for purposes of the 64-bit platforms could be OK, but the argumentation
> isnt that strong there i think.]
pte chain locking seems to be still quite far up in profile logs of
2.6 on x86-64 for common workloads. It's nonexistent in mainline
2.4. I would consider this a strong reason to do something about that.
-Andi
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2004-03-12 21:15 ` 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) Andi Kleen
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2004-03-12 21:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2004-03-04 22:14 ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-04 23:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 3:43 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-27 1:33 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-27 4:38 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-27 17:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-27 19:08 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-27 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-27 20:49 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-27 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-27 21:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-27 21:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 3:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-01 11:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-02-27 21:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-27 22:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-27 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-28 2:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 4:57 ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-02-28 6:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 6:45 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-28 7:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 9:19 ` Dave Hansen
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2004-02-28 12:46 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-29 1:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-29 2:29 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-29 16:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 6:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-28 6:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 7:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-28 7:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-28 14:55 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-28 15:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-29 1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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2004-03-04 3:14 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-04 3:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 3:44 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-04 4:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 4:44 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-04 4:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-04 5:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 5:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-04 5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-05 20:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-05 20:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 21:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-04 12:12 ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-04 16:21 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-04 18:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-04 17:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-04 18:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-04 19:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-04 20:21 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-05 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 14:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 14:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 14:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 15:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 15:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-07 8:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-07 10:29 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-07 17:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-08 5:15 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-07 17:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 21:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-05 18:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-05 19:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 19:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-03-05 20:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 20:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-05 21:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-05 14:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 14:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 15:02 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-03-05 15:51 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-05 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 16:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-07 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-10 13:21 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-05 16:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 16:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-05 16:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-05 20:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-06 5:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-06 12:56 ` Magnus Naeslund(t)
2004-03-06 13:13 ` Magnus Naeslund(t)
2004-03-07 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-07 6:50 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-03-02 9:10 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-02 15:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-27 21:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-02-27 23:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-27 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-27 20:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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