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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Wirth <martin.wirth@dlr.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [patch] futex requeueing feature, futex-requeue-2.5.69-D3
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 05:04:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522120424.GP8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305221328130.6965-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:34:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there's a patch in the works to change futex hashing to not require page
> pinning, without making futexes process-local. This should also fix the
> FUTEX_FD problems.
> basically the idea is that struct page remains to be a good hash whenever
> the page is present, and the swapout pte value is a good hash key when the
> page is swapped out. So we basically can make futexes swappable.
> this gets rid of pinned pages and pagetable locking, without the need for
> API-level changes.

Someone's already doing it? I'll back off if so.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 11:23 [patch] futex requeueing feature, futex-requeue-2.5.69-D3 Martin Wirth
2003-05-22 11:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-22 12:04   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
     [not found] <3ECCB319.4060706@dlr.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-05-22 11:38 ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] <3ECAC2AE.8090401@redhat.com>
2003-05-21  2:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-21  9:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-21 10:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-22  0:30     ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-22  9:15       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-22 10:35         ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-19  9:31 Ingo Molnar
2003-05-19 10:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 10:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-19 11:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-20  0:08   ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-20  0:31     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-19 10:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-20  0:04 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-20  0:40   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-20  1:46     ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-20  2:11       ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-20  6:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-20  6:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-20  8:57           ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-20  9:03             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-05-20  9:51               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-20 15:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-20  9:12           ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-20 15:41           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-20  8:55         ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-20  6:19   ` Ingo Molnar

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