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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu_counter: Fix __percpu_counter_sum()
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:00:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081208230047.GC2501@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228774836.16244.22.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:20:35PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> atomic_t is pretty good on all archs, but you get to keep the cacheline
> ping-pong.
> 

Stupid question --- if you're worried about cacheline ping-pongs, why
aren't each cpu's delta counter cacheline aligned?  With a 64-byte
cache-line, and a 32-bit counters entry, with less than 16 CPU's we're
going to be getting cache ping-pong effects with percpu_counter's,
right?  Or am I missing something?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4936D287.6090206@cosmosbay.com>
     [not found] ` <4936EB04.8000609@cosmosbay.com>
2008-12-07  4:22   ` [PATCH] percpu_counter: Fix __percpu_counter_sum() Andrew Morton
2008-12-07 10:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-07 13:28     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-07 17:28       ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-07 18:00         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-08  4:52           ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-08 22:12             ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-08 22:20               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-08 23:00                 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-12-08 23:05                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-08 23:08                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-09  8:12                     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-09  8:34                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-10  5:09                         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-10  5:49                           ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-10 22:56                             ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-12  8:17                               ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-12  8:22                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-12 11:08                                 ` [PATCH] percpu_counter: use local_t and atomic_long_t if possible Eric Dumazet
2008-12-12 11:29                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-23 11:43                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-25 13:26                                     ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-15 12:53                             ` [PATCH] percpu_counter: Fix __percpu_counter_sum() Rusty Russell
2008-12-16 20:16                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-10  7:12                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-08 23:07                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-08 23:49                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-08 22:22               ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-08 22:44               ` Mingming Cao
2008-12-07 22:24         ` [PATCH] atomic: fix a typo in atomic_long_xchg() Eric Dumazet
2008-12-07 15:28     ` [PATCH] percpu_counter: Fix __percpu_counter_sum() Theodore Tso
2008-12-08  4:42       ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-08 17:55         ` Mingming Cao
2008-12-11 16:32           ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-12-08 17:44     ` Mingming Cao

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