From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Martin Wirth <Martin.Wirth@dlr.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, nigel@nrg.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
Date: 07 Feb 2002 15:11:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1013112717.10430.79.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C62DE3E.DE15CAF2@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C629F91.2869CB1F@dlr.de>, <3C629F91.2869CB1F@dlr.de> <1013107259.10430.29.camel@phantasy> <3C62D49A.4CBB6295@zip.com.au> <3C62DABA.3020906@us.ibm.com> <3C62DE3E.DE15CAF2@zip.com.au>
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 15:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A dynamic lock which says "we've spun for too long, let's sleep"
> seems to be a tradeoff between programmer effort and efficiency,
> and a bad one at that.
I'm not so sure. What if we can't _know_ how long the lock will be held
because we don't know the status of the holder? What if _he_ is
sleeping on some other lock or their are a lot of contending processes?
Certainly I agree, we need to put forth effort into designing things
right and with a minimal amount of lock held time.
> Possibly the locks could become more adaptive, and could, at
> each call site, "learn" the expected spintime. But it all seems
> too baroque to me.
Agreed, this is much too much ;-)
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 15:38 [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5 Martin Wirth
2002-02-07 18:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 18:06 ` Richard Gooch
2002-02-07 18:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-02-07 19:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 19:55 ` Mark Frazer
2002-02-08 12:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-07 18:40 ` Robert Love
2002-02-07 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 19:51 ` Dave Hansen
2002-02-07 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 20:11 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-02-07 21:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-07 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 8:20 ` Nigel Gamble
2002-02-08 17:06 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-07 19:58 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 20:08 ` Robert Love
2002-02-07 20:15 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 20:20 ` Robert Love
2002-02-07 20:36 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 20:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 21:00 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 21:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 20:49 ` Martin Wirth
2002-02-08 8:34 ` Martin Wirth
2002-02-08 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-08 18:12 ` Martin Wirth
2002-02-08 18:33 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-08 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-08 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-08 19:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-08 19:36 ` Robert Love
2002-02-09 0:18 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-08 21:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-08 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-08 20:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-08 21:16 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-09 0:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-09 0:05 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-08 21:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-09 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-07 19:56 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 22:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-07 20:31 ` yodaiken
2002-02-07 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 21:02 ` yodaiken
2002-02-08 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-02-08 16:51 ` Nigel Gamble
2002-02-08 18:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 20:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-08 18:56 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-08 20:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-08 19:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-08 20:14 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 20:38 ` yodaiken
2002-02-08 21:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 12:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-08 15:13 ` yodaiken
2002-02-08 19:22 ` Horst von Brand
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