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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	tj@kernel.org, cl@linux.com
Subject: Re: [patch v3 3/3] percpu_counter: use percpu data to track add start
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:59:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305622767.2850.19.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110517084419.775071525@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>

Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 16:41 +0800, Shaohua Li a écrit :
> pièce jointe document texte brut (percpu-counter-percpustart.patch)
> add_start causes a lot of cache bouncing because it's updated by all
> cpus. We can actually make it a percpu variable. This will completely
> reduce the cache bouncing.
> With the patch and last patch, I get about 7x faster running the
> workload that last patch described. Only with last patch, the workload
> is only about 4x faster.
> This doesn't slow down _sum because we removed lock for _sum. I did
> a stress test. 23 CPU run _add, one cpu runs _sum. In _add fast path
> (don't hold) lock, _sum runs a little slow (about 20% slower). In
> _add slow path (hold lock), _sum runs much faster (about 9x faster);
> 
> V2: uses one percpu data as Eric suggested.

I NACK this patch very much.




      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17  8:41 [patch v3 0/3] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement Shaohua Li
2011-05-17  8:41 ` [patch v3 1/3] percpu_counter: fix code for 32bit systems for UP Shaohua Li
2011-05-17  8:41 ` [patch v3 2/3] percpu_counter: use atomic64 for counter in SMP Shaohua Li
2011-05-17  9:02   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17  8:41 ` [patch v3 3/3] percpu_counter: use percpu data to track add start Shaohua Li
2011-05-17  8:59   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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