From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: convert the shared_policy lock to a rwlock
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:50:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564DA984.2040903@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564CDA0F.40801@sgi.com>
On 11/18/2015 09:05 PM, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
>
>
> On 11/18/2015 07:50 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> At first glance it seems that RCU would be a good fit here and achieve even
>> better lookup scalability, have you considered it?
>>
>
> Originally that was my plan but when I saw how good the results were
> with the rwlock, I chickened out and took the less prone to mistakes way.
>
> I should also note that the 2% time left in system is not from this lookup
> but another area.
Ah, I see, thanks!
Vlastimil
> Nate
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 17:11 [RFC] mempolicy: convert the shared_policy lock to a rwlock Nathan Zimmer
2015-11-12 21:10 ` David Rientjes
2015-11-17 16:17 ` [PATCH] " Nathan Zimmer
2015-11-18 13:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-11-18 20:05 ` Nathan Zimmer
2015-11-19 10:50 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2015-12-21 13:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
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