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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cache align vm_stat
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:29:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027142858.GB6563@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111027085008.GA6563@csn.ul.ie>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:50:25AM +0200, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:10:35AM -0500, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> > Avoid false sharing of the vm_stat array.
> > 
> > This was found to adversely affect tmpfs I/O performance.
> > 
> 
> I think this fix is overly simplistic.

In a lesson on why I should not even try reviewing while attending
conferences, I totally misread what the patch is doing. It's aligning
the array to avoid false sharing with other global data, not aligning
each element. This is reasonable.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27  8:50 [PATCH] cache align vm_stat Mel Gorman
2011-10-27 12:51 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-27 14:29 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-24 16:10 Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-27  2:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-28 22:54   ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-29  5:22     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-31 13:37     ` Dimitri Sivanich

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