From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:13:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218001357.GA30450@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912171443080.5819@router.home>
* Christoph Lameter (cl@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > Some quick test on my Intel Xeon E5405:
> >
> > local cmpxchg: 14 cycles
> > xchg: 18 cycles
> >
> > So yes, indeed, the non-LOCK prefixed local cmpxchg seems a bit faster
> > than the xchg, given the latter has an implied LOCK prefix.
> >
> > Code used for local cmpxchg:
> > old = var;
> > do {
> > ret = cmpxchg_local(&var, old, 4);
> > if (likely(ret == old))
> > break;
> > old = ret;
> > } while (1);
> >
>
> Great. Could you also put that into "patch-format"?
>
Sure, can you point me to a git tree I should work on top of which
includes the per cpu infrastructure to extend ?
Mathieu
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-14 22:03 [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup Christoph Lameter
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 1/8] this_cpu_ops: page allocator conversion Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 3:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-15 15:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-16 0:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-16 14:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-17 0:23 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 2/8] this_cpu ops: Remove pageset_notifier Christoph Lameter
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 3/8] Use this_cpu operations in slub Christoph Lameter
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 4/8] SLUB: Get rid of dynamic DMA kmalloc cache allocation Christoph Lameter
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 5/8] this_cpu: Remove slub kmem_cache fields Christoph Lameter
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 6/8] Make slub statistics use this_cpu_inc Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 6:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-15 14:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 14:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 7/8] Module handling: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 4:03 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-15 22:41 ` Rusty Russell
2009-12-16 16:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-17 0:25 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-17 5:42 ` Rusty Russell
2009-12-14 22:03 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 8/8] Remove cpu_local_xx macros Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 4:04 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-15 6:37 ` [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup Pekka Enberg
2009-12-15 6:47 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-15 14:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 17:06 ` Mel Gorman
2009-12-16 14:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-16 21:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-15 17:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-16 0:58 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-16 1:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-16 1:46 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-17 13:39 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-17 19:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-17 20:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-12-17 20:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-18 0:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2009-12-18 0:27 ` Christoph Lameter
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