Re: [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v4

Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28T15:28:07Z

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 18:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > Yanmin ran the last posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
> > and didn't find any regressions.
>
> Is there data somewhere that shows where this helps and how much?

Yanmin didn't publish any data, but the main point of the series is to
not take hundreds of nested spinlocks. Not regressing is a fine state.

In theory the preemptible mmu could end up doing less TLB invalidates
for large unmaps and thus gain some performance there.