From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:32:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125183240.GA31346@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125173111.720927511@chello.nl>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:31:11PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
> i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
> preemptible.
>
> The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
> appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.
>
> The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
> something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.
>
> It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
> cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.
>
> This patch-set is build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
> also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when
> Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).
>
> There are no known architectures left unconverted.
Hi Peter.
Foregive me my ignorance..
Why is this relevant for sparc64 but not for sparc32?
A quick grep showed up only this in sparc32 specific files:
mm/init_32.c:DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers);
Maybe this is just something sparc32 does not support?
Sam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 17:31 [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 01/25] tile: Fix __pte_free_tlb Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-04 20:39 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-07 13:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-23 20:59 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 02/25] mm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 03/25] powerpc: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 04/25] sparc: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:30 ` David Miller
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 05/25] s390: preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 06/25] arm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 07/25] sh: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 08/25] um: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 09/25] ia64: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:12 ` Tony Luck
2011-01-25 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 21:23 ` Tony Luck
2011-01-26 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 10/25] mm: Now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 11/25] mm, powerpc: Move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 12/25] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 13/25] mutex: Provide mutex_is_contended Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 14/25] mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 15/25] mm: Extended batches for generic mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 16/25] mm: Revert page_lock_anon_vma() lock annotation Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 17/25] mm: Improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 18/25] mm: Rename drop_anon_vma to put_anon_vma Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 19/25] mm: Move anon_vma ref out from under CONFIG_KSM Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 20/25] mm: Simplify anon_vma refcounts Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-25 20:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 21/25] mm: Use refcounts for page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 22/25] mm: Convert anon_vma->lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-03 5:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-02-03 15:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-04 4:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 23/25] mm: Optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 24/25] mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 25/25] mm, arch: Ensure we never tlb_flush_mmu() from atomic context Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 18:32 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2011-01-25 19:28 ` [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-01-25 19:45 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <1295987985.28776.1118.camel@laptop>
2011-01-25 20:47 ` Andi Kleen
2011-01-25 21:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-26 13:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 26/25] mm, arch: Convert ia64, arm, sh to generic tlb Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 12:06 ` [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Peter Zijlstra
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