From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Eberhard Pasch <epasch@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:12:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409121312.21358.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040912104306.GA25741@krispykreme>
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On Sonntag, 12. September 2004 12:43, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> cpu_relax doesnt tell us why we are busy looping. In this particular
> case we want to pass to the hypervisor which virtual cpu we are waiting
> on so the hypervisor make better scheduling decisions.
Ah, interesting. I think s390 could do the same with the upcoming 5.1 release
of z/VM. However, we decided to ask for an implementation of a futex hypercall
instead, which lets us implement the linux spinlock as a hypervisor semaphore.
> Did you manage to see any improvement by yielding to the hypervisor
> in cpu_relax?
I'm not sure if this has been measured, maybe Martin or Eberhard knows more.
Arnd <><
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 0:02 [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-09 5:42 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-09 12:41 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-09 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-09 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-09 15:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:59 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 5:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-12 5:10 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 5:13 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:32 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-12 5:33 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 4:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-12 5:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 5:02 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-12 6:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 6:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-12 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-12 5:27 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-13 12:21 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention #2 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 7:49 ` [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 16:10 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-09-12 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 10:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-12 10:43 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2004-09-09 15:43 ` [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64 Anton Blanchard
2004-09-09 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 21:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-09 22:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 23:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-10 0:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 0:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-10 0:35 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 0:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-10 1:42 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 1:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 2:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 2:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 2:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 3:24 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-10 12:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-10 12:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-10 3:23 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 7:56 ` Anton Blanchard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-13 0:45 [PATCH] Yielding processor resources during lock contention Nakajima, Jun
2004-09-13 1:35 Nakajima, Jun
2004-09-13 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
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