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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:40:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013064006.GC9470@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013040515.GI18578@obsidianresearch.com>


* Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:20:46PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > It might be more acceptable because the flag-hint mechanism can at most 
> > cause over-flushing - while with perf events we might miss to invalidate 
> > a range altogether.
> 
> Right. Overflushing is not important, but missing an event entirely is 
> not recoverable (at least within the current kernel APIs).

So if we detect event loss in the perf event case (should not happen 
with sufficient buffering but it is a possibility the code should be 
prepared for) then we can just flush the [0,-1ULL] range, right?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-13  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  4:38 [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Roland Dreier
2009-09-15 11:34 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]   ` <20090915113434.GF1328-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-15 14:57     ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
     [not found]       ` <ada7hw0gsqz.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-28 20:49         ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]           ` <20090928204923.GA1960-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-28 21:40             ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found] ` <aday6omhz9d.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  5:56   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-11  6:03     ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
     [not found]       ` <adatyzahvbm.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  6:11         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found]           ` <20090911150552.DB68.A69D9226-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11 16:42             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-09-11  6:15       ` Brice Goglin
     [not found]         ` <4AA9EAF7.5010401-MZpvjPyXg2s@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  6:21           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-11  6:22           ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-11  6:40             ` [ofa-general] " Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]               ` <20090911064019.GZ4973-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11 16:58                 ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                   ` <adaljklifkt.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-15  7:03                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-15  8:27                       ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-15 12:38                       ` Jeff Squyres
2009-09-16 16:30   ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-16 16:40     ` [ofa-general] " Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 11:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-17 14:24     ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
     [not found]       ` <adafxalejiq.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-17 14:32         ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]           ` <adaab0tej5c.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-17 14:49             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-17 15:03               ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                 ` <adazl8td35u.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-17 15:22                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-17 15:45                   ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                     ` <adatyz1d17q.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-18 11:50                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-29 17:13                       ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                         ` <20090929171332.GD14405-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-30  9:44                           ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                             ` <20090930094456.GD24621-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-30 16:02                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                                 ` <20090930160232.GZ22310-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-12 18:19                                   ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                                     ` <20091012181944.GF17138-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-12 19:30                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2009-10-12 20:20                                         ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                                           ` <20091012202046.GA7648-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-13  4:05                                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2009-10-13  6:40                                               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
     [not found]                                                 ` <20091013064006.GC9470-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-13 16:27                                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2009-10-13  5:43                                           ` Brice Goglin
     [not found]                                             ` <4AD41373.8010108-MZpvjPyXg2s@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-13  6:38                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-30 17:06                               ` Roland Dreier
2009-10-02 16:32                               ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                                 ` <ada3a61rc3j.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-02 20:45                                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-07 22:34                                   ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]                                     ` <ada3a5uq1dk.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-12 17:33                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-17 14:43         ` Peter Zijlstra

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