From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, npiggin@kernel.dk,
rientjes@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:30:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin8jHz0a5oS4LWQCrYW2VDb9A0V2aL7O5dYaPBt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1103261406420.24195@router.home>
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
>
> Right. RSI should be in the range of the values you printed.
> However, the determination RSI is independent of the emulation of the
> instruction. If RSI is set wrong then we should see these failures on
> machines that do not do the instruction emulation. A kvm run with Ingo's
> config should show the same issues. Will do that now.
I bet it's timing-dependent and/or dependent on some code layout
issue. Why else would the totally pointless previous patch have made
any difference for Ingo (the "SLUB: Write to per cpu data when
allocating it" thing seems to be pure voodoo programming)?
That said, this early in the boot I don't think we should have any
parallelism going on, so I don't see what could make those kinds of
random effects.
Linus
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 14:40 [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1 Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 14:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 14:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 16:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 17:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 17:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 17:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 18:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 18:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 18:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 18:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 18:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 19:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 18:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 18:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 19:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 19:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 19:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 19:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 19:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 19:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-24 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 20:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 20:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-25 15:13 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-25 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-27 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-24 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-27 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-24 18:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 19:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 18:52 ` [boot crash #2] " Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 19:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-24 19:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 19:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-25 20:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-26 11:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-26 11:47 ` [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator Ingo Molnar
2011-03-26 17:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-26 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-26 19:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-26 19:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-26 19:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-26 21:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-26 20:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-26 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-27 1:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-27 1:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-27 7:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-28 10:32 ` [PATCH] percpu: avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double Eric Dumazet
2011-03-28 13:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-28 16:06 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-28 6:12 ` [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator Pekka Enberg
2011-03-28 6:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28 6:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-28 6:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28 7:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-28 13:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-28 7:35 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-26 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-03-26 17:58 ` [boot crash #2] Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2011-03-24 19:16 ` Call Trace:Re: " Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-24 19:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 20:04 ` Gustavo F. Padovan
2011-03-24 16:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 16:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 17:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-24 17:21 ` Ingo Molnar
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