From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm: fixup changers of per cpu pageset's ->high and ->batch
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:37:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51631C70.8010404@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5160CC94.6040909@gmail.com>
On 04/06/2013 06:32 PM, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Hi Cody,
> On 04/06/2013 04:33 AM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
>> In one case while modifying the ->high and ->batch fields of per cpu
>> pagesets
>> we're unneededly using stop_machine() (patches 1 & 2), and in another
>> we don't have any
>> syncronization at all (patch 3).
>
> Do you mean stop_machine() is used for syncronization between each
> online cpu?
>
I mean that it looks like synchronization between cpus is unneeded
because of how per cpu pagesets are used, so stop_machine() (which does
provide syncro between all cpus) is unnecessarily "strong".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-05 20:33 [PATCH 0/3] mm: fixup changers of per cpu pageset's ->high and ->batch Cody P Schafer
2013-04-05 20:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/page_alloc: factor out setting of pcp->high and pcp->batch Cody P Schafer
2013-04-07 1:37 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-08 17:39 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-09 5:42 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-05 20:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to use on_each_cpu() instead of stop_machine() Cody P Schafer
2013-04-07 15:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-08 17:32 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 19:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-08 19:49 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 22:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-09 1:52 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-05 20:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: when handling percpu_pagelist_fraction, use on_each_cpu() to set percpu pageset fields Cody P Schafer
2013-04-07 1:56 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-08 17:34 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-07 15:41 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-08 12:20 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-04-08 17:28 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 19:50 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 22:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-09 6:03 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-04-09 6:06 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-04-09 19:27 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 19:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-07 1:32 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm: fixup changers of per cpu pageset's ->high and ->batch Simon Jeons
2013-04-08 19:37 ` Cody P Schafer [this message]
2013-04-07 15:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-08 17:16 ` Cody P Schafer
2013-04-08 19:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-08 21:17 ` Cody P Schafer
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