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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V5 19/19] SLUB: Experimental new fastpath w/o interrupt disable
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012160503.GA31249@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0910121137100.21558@gentwo.org>

* Christoph Lameter (cl@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > local_irq_enable();
> > preempt_enable(); <- barrier()
> >
> > In the first scenario, the compiler barrier is at the beginning of the
> > slow path function, which should impose less restrictions on the compiler
> > optimizations.
> 
> Again: The next statement is a call to a function that calls the page
> allocator. Its one call vs two for me. Plus the flow of things is much
> cleaner and less obfuscated.
> 

That's a convincing argument, I agree.

Thanks,

Mathieu


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Mathieu Desnoyers
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F  BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 23:36 [this_cpu_xx V5 00/19] Introduce per cpu atomic operations and avoid per cpu address arithmetic cl
2009-10-06 23:36 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 01/19] Introduce this_cpu_ptr() and generic this_cpu_* operations cl
2009-10-06 23:52   ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-07 14:23     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 15:29       ` Tejun Heo
2009-10-06 23:36 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 02/19] this_cpu: X86 optimized this_cpu operations cl
2009-10-06 23:36 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 03/19] Use this_cpu operations for SNMP statistics cl
2009-10-06 23:36 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 04/19] Use this_cpu operations for NFS statistics cl
2009-10-06 23:36 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 05/19] use this_cpu ops for network statistics cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 06/19] this_cpu_ptr: Straight transformations cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 07/19] this_cpu_ptr: Eliminate get/put_cpu cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 09/19] Use this_cpu_ptr in crypto subsystem cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 10/19] Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 11/19] RCU: Use this_cpu operations cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 12/19] this_cpu_ops: page allocator conversion cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 13/19] this_cpu ops: Remove pageset_notifier cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 14/19] Use this_cpu operations in slub cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 15/19] SLUB: Get rid of dynamic DMA kmalloc cache allocation cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 16/19] this_cpu: Remove slub kmem_cache fields cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 17/19] Make slub statistics use this_cpu_inc cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 18/19] this_cpu: slub aggressive use of this_cpu operations in the hotpaths cl
2009-10-06 23:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V5 19/19] SLUB: Experimental new fastpath w/o interrupt disable cl
2009-10-07  2:54   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07  9:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-07 12:46       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07 13:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-07 13:31           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07 14:37             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-07 14:21           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 14:42         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 15:02           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07 15:05             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 15:19               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07 15:21                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 15:41                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07 16:42                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-07 17:12                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08  7:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 12:44                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08 12:53                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 16:17                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-08 17:22                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08 16:11                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-08 17:17                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08 17:44                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-08 19:17                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08 19:21                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-08 20:37                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-08 21:08                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-12 13:56                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-12 14:52                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-12 15:26                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-12 15:23                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-12 15:38                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-12 15:38                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-12 16:05                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2009-10-07 15:25     ` Christoph Lameter

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