From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
helgehaf@idb.hist.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:30:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011112173014.G32099@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011112.152304.39155908.davem@redhat.com> <E163QHW-0007gY-00@wagner>
In-Reply-To: <E163QHW-0007gY-00@wagner>
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:14:22AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <20011112.152304.39155908.davem@redhat.com> you write:
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:59:05 +1100
> >
> > (atomic_inc & atomic_dec_and_test for every packet, anyone?).
> >
> > We already do pay that price, in skb_release_data() :-)
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear! skb_release_data() does an atomic ops on the
> skb data region, which is almost certainly on the same CPU. This is
> an atomic op on a global counter for the module, which almost
> certainly isn't.
>
> For something which (statistically speaking) never happens (module
> unload).
>
Is this in the fast path or slow path?
If it only happens on (un)load, then there isn't any cost until it's needed...
Mike
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111081836080.15975-100000@localhost.localdomain.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-08 23:00 ` speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 0:05 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-09 5:45 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 6:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 6:39 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 6:54 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:24 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 8:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-09 7:35 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-09 7:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 7:16 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-09 12:54 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 13:15 ` Philip Dodd
2001-11-09 13:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 20:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-09 13:17 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 13:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-09 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 13:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 5:20 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-10 4:56 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-10 5:09 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-10 13:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 13:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 13:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-10 14:29 ` Numbers: ext2/ext3/reiser Performance (ext3 is slow) Oktay Akbal
2001-11-10 14:47 ` arjan
2001-11-10 17:41 ` Oktay Akbal
2001-11-10 17:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-15 17:24 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-11-12 16:59 ` [patch] arbitrary size memory allocator, memarea-2.4.15-D6 Ingo Molnar
2001-11-12 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-12 23:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-13 15:59 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-14 20:49 ` Tom Gall
2001-11-15 1:11 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-17 18:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-11-09 3:12 ` speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? Rusty Russell
2001-11-09 5:59 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-09 11:16 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-12 9:59 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-12 23:23 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-12 23:14 ` Rusty Russell
2001-11-13 1:30 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-11-13 1:15 ` David Lang
2001-11-08 16:01 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-11-08 17:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-08 17:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-08 23:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-09 5:11 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-10 3:35 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-10 7:26 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-08 17:53 ` Robert Love
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