From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian <vrajesh@umich.edu>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
raybry@sgi.com, ak@muc.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: page fault fastpath patch v2: fix race conditions, stats for 8,32 and 512 cpu SMP
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:41:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040819034109.GC11200@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040819033127.GB11200@holomorphy.com>
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>>> Something like this?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:19:25PM -0400, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian wrote:
>> Yeah, something similar... A small nitpick: page_table_lock
>> nests within i_mmap_lock and anon_lock.
>> do_unmap() also frees page tables first and then removes vmas from
>> i_mmap (and/or) anon_vma list. Is there a reason to preserve
>> this ordering ?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:31:27PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I don't see a reason to rearrange it. We can just as easily drop and
> reacquire ->page_table_lock.
On closer examination it's not that simple.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-19 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2uexw-1Nn-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2uCTq-2wa-55@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-18 23:50 ` page fault fastpath patch v2: fix race conditions, stats for 8,32 and 512 cpu SMP Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-08-19 0:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19 0:07 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-08-19 0:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19 3:19 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-08-19 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19 3:41 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-23 22:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-23 23:25 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-08-23 23:35 ` Christoph Lameter
[not found] <fa.ofiojek.hkeujs@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.o1kt2ua.1bm6n0c@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-18 20:13 ` Ray Bryant
2004-08-18 20:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-15 13:50 page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte locks? Christoph Lameter
2004-08-15 20:09 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-15 22:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-15 23:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-16 0:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 1:56 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-16 3:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 14:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 15:28 ` page fault fastpath patch v2: fix race conditions, stats for 8,32 and 512 cpu SMP Christoph Lameter
2004-08-17 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-17 15:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-18 17:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-18 20:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19 1:19 ` Christoph Lameter
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