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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020121847.GE20124@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287576512.3488.13.camel@twins>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:08:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:06 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:20:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:31 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > Really a lot of the per CPU scaling we have today should be per core
> > > > or per node to avoid explosion. 
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't that be per-cache instead of per-core?
> > 
> > That's the same on modern x86:
> 
> Last time I checked there's more than 1 directory in arch/

Not sure what your point is? 

I believe non x86 server processors have similar cache
layouts as the one I described, occasionally with another
cache level, and should do well with a similar setup.

For non server it typically doesn't matter too much
because there are not enough cores.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20  3:07 [PATCH 2/2]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes Shaohua Li
2010-10-20  5:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-20  7:31   ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20 11:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-20 12:06       ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20 12:08         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-20 12:18           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-20  7:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20  8:44   ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-20 23:07 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86: Spread " tip-bot for Shaohua Li

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