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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andreas Platschek <platschek@ict.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 4/5] allow preemption in mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:30:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140214153034.GA4015@opentech.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214131959.GG28438@linutronix.de>

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2014-02-14 14:17:05 [+0100]:
> 
> >Now, that I look at it again. Isn't it more efficient to keep preemption
> >disabled for this very short time instead instead of invoking
> >migrate_disable() which includes preempt_disable()/enable() and a few
> >more opcodes???
> >Therefore, I drop it again.
> 
> I think doing the same for the 1/5 of this series since it also disables
> migration for a handfull of asm opcodes.
>
yup - nice run in the wrong direction :)
those short pushdowns make no sense - should have looked at that first...
the execution length/complexity (notably worst case on migrate_enable()) is
actually very high compared to a preempt_enable.

thx!
hofrat

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-10 15:39 [PATCH RT 4/5] allow preemption in mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat Nicholas Mc Guire
2014-02-14 13:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-02-14 13:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-02-14 13:19   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-02-14 15:30     ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]

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