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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] cpuacct: Make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used.
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:35:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090318080539.GD3960@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090318160827.fa53cb9b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:08:27PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:18:01 +0530
> Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Looks ok to me, but will wait for experts' comments.
> > 
> > However, I did a quick measurement of read times with percpu_counter_read()
> > (no readside lock) and percpu_counter_sum() (readside lock) and I don't
> > see a major slowdown with percpu_counter_sum().
> > 
> > Time taken for 100 reads of cpuacct.stat with 1s delay b/n every read.
> > percpu_counter_read() - 9845 us
> > percpu_counter_sum() - 9974 us
> > 
> Then, almost 1 us overhead per read().....Hmm, seems big (as counter).

Well some cost for correct and accurate counter :)

BTW, I did a few more iterations and I don't see consistent numbers.
The results from 7 runs look like this:

percpu_counter_read() - 11325, 11549, 5939, 9999, 7129, 7758, 11385 us
percpu_counter_sum() - 8655, 9201, 8705, 11766, 10619, 9186, 8890 us 

Regards,
Bharata.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  6:17 [PATCH -tip] cpuacct: Make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used Bharata B Rao
2009-03-17  6:28 ` Li Zefan
2009-03-17  7:36   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-17 13:12     ` Balbir Singh
2009-03-17 13:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-17 13:59         ` Balbir Singh
2009-03-17 14:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-18  3:25             ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-18  3:54               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-18  4:48                 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-18  7:08                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-18  8:05                     ` Bharata B Rao [this message]
2009-03-17 23:59         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-18  3:18       ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-18  9:36         ` Balbir Singh
2009-03-19  9:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-19  9:43       ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-17 12:40   ` Balbir Singh
2009-03-18  1:40     ` Li Zefan
2009-03-18  2:59       ` Balbir Singh

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