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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJocwccu5QQyuKRvgNyPSFz2K_rzCW419W9-XdSUYOL7+KqQKg@mail.gmail.com>
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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