Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Scalable Statistics Counters

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:18:26PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:08:57 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.7/
> 
> Oops, guess I should have read this thread first (still catching up on mail).
> 
> Please see my per-cpu patch (just posted under [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu
> areas), and my previous /proc patch.  Combining the two into convenient form
> is left as an exercise for the reader...

Hi Rusty,

Your per-cpu area patch looks like a good solution with a very simple
implementation. BTW, some OSes map the per-cpu data areas
to the same virtual address for each CPU avoiding the per-cpu data
array lookup. I am not sure if this really saves much, we are ourselves
trying to understand the overhead of such array lookup with 
statctrs. 

IIUC, we can declare statically allocated per-cpu data using 
this allocator (kstat, apic_timer_irqs etc.). For things that
are a part of dynamically allocated structure, we would still
need to use a dynamic per-cpu allocator, right ?

Another interesting question is how we can load different
per-cpu sections to different areas in memory. I would suspect
that for NUMA, we would want to locate the per-cpu sections closest
to the corresponding CPUs.

I couldn't find the /proc patch. Any pointers ?

Thanks
Dipankar
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