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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	borislav.petkov@amd.com, arnd@arndb.de, akinobu.mita@gmail.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	hughd@google.com, jeremy@goop.org, len.brown@intel.com,
	tony.luck@intel.com, yongjie.ren@intel.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com,
	penberg@kernel.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@linux.intel.com, luto@mit.edu,
	avi@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	riel@redhat.com, cpw@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	hpa@zytor.com, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] x86/tlb: just do tlb flush on one of siblings of SMT
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:42:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337848970.9783.72.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBDF200.7060608@intel.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:32 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> So, I use cpumask_t in stack.

cpumask_t is 512 bytes with NR_CPUS=4096, that's generally considered
too big to be on stack.

A number of people spend a lot of time removing cpumask_t from stacks a
while ago, I'm very sure they'll not be happy if you're going to add it
back.

Rusty, what was the plan on removing cpumask_t altogether?


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-23 14:15 [PATCH v7 0/8] x86 tlb optimisations Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:51   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24  6:41     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  8:12       ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24  8:55         ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  9:44           ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 14:36             ` Alex Shi
2012-05-25  2:43             ` Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for generic mmu and x86 Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] x86/tlb: just do tlb flush on one of siblings of SMT Alex Shi
2012-05-23 15:05   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-23 17:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-23 17:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24  1:46         ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-05-24  5:12           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  6:04             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-24  7:40           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 13:19             ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-05-24 13:23               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 13:39                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24 13:54                   ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 14:18                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24 14:32                       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 15:03                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25  0:24                           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 16:08                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-25  0:28                           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-25  0:46                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24  8:32       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  8:42         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-05-24  8:48           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 11:35             ` Rusty Russell
2012-05-24 14:03               ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  9:27           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  9:42             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24  9:46             ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 14:06               ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  8:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24  8:48         ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24  9:02           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24  9:45             ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 15:04         ` H. Peter Anvin

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