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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	clameter@sgi.com,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:30:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109831428.5680.187.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42274727.2070200@yahoo.com.au>

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 04:19 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> You don't want to do that for all architectures, as I said earlier.
> eg. i386 can concurrently set the dirty bit with the MMU (which won't
> honour the lock).
> 
> So you then need an atomic lock, atomic pte operations, and atomic
> unlock where previously you had only the atomic pte operation. This is
> disastrous for performance.

Of course, but I was answering to David about sparc64 which uses
software TLB load :)

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-03  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-02  3:49 Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview Christoph Lameter
2005-03-02  3:50 ` Page fault scalability patch V18: atomic pte ops, pte_cmpxchg and pte_xchg Christoph Lameter
2005-03-02  3:51 ` Page fault scalability patch V18: abstract rss counter ops Christoph Lameter
2005-03-02  3:51 ` Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  1:45   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03  2:13     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  2:55       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03  3:17         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  4:14           ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03  4:27             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  4:56               ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03  5:17                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  5:37                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03  5:48                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  6:13                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  6:20                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 16:54                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03 21:20                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 22:14                         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-04 16:44                         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-04 17:09                           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-04 18:29                             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-04 19:08                               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-31  6:55                             ` Avoid spurious page faults by avoiding pte_clear -> set pte Christoph Lameter
2005-03-04 16:46                         ` Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  5:00             ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-03  5:19               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  5:38               ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03  5:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  6:11                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 16:52                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-03  5:54                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 17:19                   ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-03  6:30                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-03  7:44                       ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-03 17:43                       ` David S. Miller
2005-03-03  5:24             ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-02  3:52 ` Page fault scalability patch V18: No page table lock in do_anonymous_page Christoph Lameter
2005-03-04  2:18 ` Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview Darren Williams
2005-03-04  2:47   ` Darren Williams
2005-03-04 16:15     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-06 21:49       ` Darren Williams
2005-03-06 23:59         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-07  3:32           ` Darren Williams
2005-03-08  4:03             ` Christoph Lameter

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