From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, davem@davemloft.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: NO_HZ migration of TCP ack timers
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:08:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100218100849.GD5964@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100218095529.GA31681@kryten>
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:55:30PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Hi Andi,
>
> > If the nohz balancer CPU is otherwise idle, shouldn't it have enough
> > cycles to handle acks for everyone? Is the problem the cache line
> > transfer time?
>
> Yeah, I think the timer spinlock on the nohz balancer cpu ends up being a
> global lock for every other cpu trying to migrate their ack timers to it.
And they do that often for short idle periods?
For longer idle periods that should be not too bad.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-18 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 5:28 NO_HZ migration of TCP ack timers Anton Blanchard
2010-02-18 8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-18 9:55 ` Anton Blanchard
2010-02-18 10:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-02-18 10:33 ` Arun R Bharadwaj
2010-02-18 16:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-02-26 12:26 ` David Miller
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