From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:26:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051110042613.7a585dec.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051110120624.GB32672@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> yuck. What is the real problem btw?
Well. One problem is that spinlocks now take two words...
But apart from that, the problem at hand is that we want to embed a
spinlock in struct page, and the size of the spinlock varies a lot according
to config. The only >wordsize version we really care about is
CONFIG_PREEMPT, NR_CPUS >= 4. (which distros don't ship...)
> AFAICS there's enough space for a
> 2-word spinlock in struct page for pagetables.
spinlocks get a lot bigger than that with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.
> We really dont want to
> rewrite spinlocks (or remove features) just to keep gcc 2.95 supported
> for some more time. In fact, is there any 2.6 based distro that uses gcc
> 2.95?
I think some of the debian derivates might. But who knows?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 1:42 [PATCH 00/15] mm: struct page lock and counts Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 2:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 2:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 11:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-10 12:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-10 12:26 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-10 21:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-10 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-11 10:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-12 23:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 12:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 12:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 13:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 15:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-10 15:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11 0:10 ` Russell King
2005-11-12 6:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-11 15:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-15 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 19:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-15 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 1:44 ` [PATCH 02/15] mm: revert page_private Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:46 ` [PATCH 03/15] mm reiser4: " Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 04/15] mm: update split ptlock Kconfig Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:48 ` [PATCH 05/15] mm: unbloat get_futex_key Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:50 ` [PATCH 06/15] mm: remove ppc highpte Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-10 1:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-10 2:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:51 ` [PATCH 07/15] mm: powerpc ptlock comments Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:53 ` [PATCH 08/15] mm: powerpc init_mm without ptlock Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:56 ` [PATCH 09/15] mm: fill arch atomic64 gaps Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 13:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-10 15:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 1:57 ` [PATCH 10/15] mm: atomic64 page counts Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:16 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 2:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 21:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-10 21:53 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 15:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-11 18:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-10 2:00 ` [PATCH 11/15] mm: long " Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:01 ` [PATCH 12/15] mm reiser4: " Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:03 ` [PATCH 13/15] mm: get_user_pages check count Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:08 ` [PATCH 14/15] mm: inc_page_table_pages check max Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 2:09 ` [PATCH 15/15] mm: remove install_page limit Hugh Dickins
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