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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>,
	Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] percpu_stats: Enable 64-bit counts in 32-bit architectures
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:17:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160411221700.GP24661@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5707FC52.3070707@hpe.com>

Hello, Waiman.

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 02:45:38PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> The percpu_stats construct allows minimal overhead in maintaining statistics
> counts. The percpu_counter construct, on the other hand, has a higher
> performance overhead and a bit more complex to set up and tear down when

If you're referring to the preemption on/off, as I wrote before, we'll
probably be able to improve that with this_cpu_add_return so that the
only extra overhead is an easily predictable branch which is extremely
cheap.  It's better to improve common constructs anyway.

> more than one statistics counts are needed. In fact, my first draft of the

And yeah, it can be cumbersome to set up and tear down multiple
percpu_counters.  If there are enough consumers, we can extend
percpu_counter to handle multiple counters, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08 16:16 [PATCH v2 0/4] ext4: Improve parallel I/O performance on NVDIMM Waiman Long
2016-04-08 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] percpu_stats: Simple per-cpu statistics count helper functions Waiman Long
2016-04-08 16:49   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-08 17:45   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-08 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] percpu_stats: Enable 64-bit counts in 32-bit architectures Waiman Long
2016-04-08 16:47   ` Tejun Heo
2016-04-08 17:32     ` Waiman Long
2016-04-08 17:46       ` Tejun Heo
2016-04-08 18:45         ` Waiman Long
2016-04-11 22:17           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-04-12 18:15             ` Waiman Long
2016-04-08 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ext4: Pass in DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT flag if inode_dio_begin() called Waiman Long
2016-04-08 16:16 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ext4: Make cache hits/misses per-cpu counts Waiman Long

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