From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Jiannan Ouyang <ouyang@cs.pitt.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi.kivity@gmail.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Srikar <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
"Andrew M. Theurer" <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Karen Noel <knoel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Preemptable Ticket Spinlock
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:33:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51761604.6080103@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366664518.8337.21.camel@laptop>
On 04/23/2013 02:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 16:49 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Given the fairly high cost of rescheduling a VCPU (which is likely
>> to include an IPI), versus the short hold time of most spinlocks,
>> I have the strong suspicion that your approach would win.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/2/101
>
> If you schedule too often your SPIN_THRESHOLD is far too low.
>
> Anyway.. performance can't be that bad, otherwise Jeremey would have
> spend as much time on it as he did.
When I experimented last time ideal SPIN_THRESHOLD for PLE machine,
was around 4k, 8k. Jeremy's experiment was on a non-PLE machine AFAIK,
which complemented PLE feature in a nice way with 2k threshold.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-04-21 21:12 ` Preemptable Ticket Spinlock Rik van Riel
2013-04-21 23:07 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 5:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-22 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 12:52 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 19:56 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:05 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:32 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:50 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:54 ` Chegu Vinod
2013-04-22 20:46 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:49 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 21:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-23 5:03 ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2013-04-22 20:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 21:31 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 23:08 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-23 5:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-23 1:42 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-05-30 11:56 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-05-30 20:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-04-22 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2013-04-22 23:13 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 5:58 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-22 16:42 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-23 1:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-26 20:10 ` Andrew Theurer
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