From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
ak@linux.intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com, alex.shi@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Re: REGRESSION: Performance regressions from switching anon_vma->lock to mutex
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:54:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110615205425.GH2267@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a89bf11-4c80-418b-b2ff-ae904983ebb8@email.android.com>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:47:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >It would be much lower risk to make the current code always use softirq
> >if !RCU_BOOST -- last time I attempted the revert, it was quite hairy.
>
> I don't care if it's a real revert or not, but I want the threads gone. Entirely. Not just the patch that uses softirqs for some things, and threads for the callbacks. No, I don't want the threads to show up or exist at all.
>
> And to be sure, I'd like the code to set up and use the threads to actually compile away statically, so that there clearly isn't some way it's partially enabled.
Yes, the kthread creation will happen only if RCU_BOOST=y. Otherwise,
there will be no RCU kthreads at all.
Thanx, Paul
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 0:29 REGRESSION: Performance regressions from switching anon_vma->lock to mutex Tim Chen
2011-06-15 0:36 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-17 19:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-15 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 1:26 ` Shaohua Li
2011-06-15 11:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 16:18 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-15 16:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-15 18:43 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-15 20:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 20:57 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-15 21:12 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-15 21:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 22:19 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-16 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 20:14 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-16 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 0:24 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-17 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-15 22:15 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-16 1:08 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-16 1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 20:26 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-16 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 11:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 11:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 17:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-17 17:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 18:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 18:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 20:19 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-17 22:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-18 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 19:53 ` [PATCH] mm, memory-failure: Fix spinlock vs mutex order Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-17 20:04 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-17 16:46 ` REGRESSION: Performance regressions from switching anon_vma->lock to mutex Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-17 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-18 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 18:22 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-17 19:05 ` Ray Lee
2011-06-16 22:00 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-15 10:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-15 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 19:24 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-15 20:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-15 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 20:12 ` [GIT PULL] " Ingo Molnar
2011-06-15 20:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-15 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 20:54 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2011-06-15 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 21:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-15 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-16 7:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16 17:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-16 20:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16 21:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-06-16 23:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 15:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-06-16 21:02 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-16 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-06-16 22:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-16 22:47 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-16 22:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 0:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-17 9:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-16 23:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-15 20:13 ` Tim Chen
2011-06-15 20:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-15 20:21 ` Tim Chen
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