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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] slub: only preallocate cpus_with_slabs if offstack
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:06:31 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110272304020.14619@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319385413-29665-7-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> We need a cpumask to track cpus with per cpu cache pages
> to know which cpu to whack during flush_all. For
> CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n we allocate the mask on stack.
> For CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y we don't want to call kmalloc
> on the flush_all path, so we preallocate per kmem_cache
> on cache creation and use it in flush_all.

I think the on stack alloc should be the default because we can then avoid
the field in kmem_cache and the associated logic with managing the field.
Can we do a GFP_ATOMIC allocation in flush_all()? If the alloc
fails then you can still fallback to send an IPI to all cpus.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-23 15:56 [PATCH v2 0/6] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] smp: Introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask function Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] arm: Move arm over to generic on_each_cpu_mask Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] tile: Move tile to use " Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm: Only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-28 16:07   ` Rik van Riel
2011-10-29 15:29     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-02  8:53       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-11-10  8:03         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] slub: Only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-28  4:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-28  8:50     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] slub: only preallocate cpus_with_slabs if offstack Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-28  4:06   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2011-10-28  9:09     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-11-02  8:52       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-11-06 19:10         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-13  8:39           ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-23 15:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-23 15:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] slub: only preallocate cpus_with_slabs if offstack Gilad Ben-Yossef
2011-10-24  5:19   ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-24  6:16     ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-24  8:02     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef

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