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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuacct: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING don't prevent percpu cputime count
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:20:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428075055.GD3825@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090428163509.EBCF.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:38:51PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:53:32PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > BTW, did you observe any real problem with the percpu counter spinlock ?
> 
> No.
> I review percpu_counter() caller recently and it seems stragen usage.
> 

I should have phrased the question better ...

So have you found any performance degradation with any benchmarks/workloads
on archs which define VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING due to percpu_counter spinlock
being taken on every tick ? If the answer is no, don't you think we could
wait before making the kind of change you are proposing ?

Regards,
Bharata.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28  6:53 [PATCH] cpuacct: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING don't prevent percpu cputime count KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-28  7:31 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-28  7:38   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-28  7:50     ` Bharata B Rao [this message]
2009-04-28  8:10       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-28 10:37         ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-29  2:31           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-29  3:30             ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-28 22:08 ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-29  2:26   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-29  5:44     ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-29  6:08       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-29  3:21   ` Bharata B Rao
2009-04-29  6:04     ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-29  6:09       ` Bharata B Rao

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