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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	Kernel-Maillist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] rcu: use __this_cpu_read helper instead of per_cpu_ptr(p, raw_smp_processor_id())
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:09:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121116180956.GE3270@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013b0a505095-87cdf6aa-4e22-4439-9fe2-5c93044077ff-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:42:14PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > If you either show me some significant performance benefits or get me
> > an independent Tested-by, in both cases on a range of hardware (e.g.,
> > x86 on the one hand and ARM or Power on the other), then I will queue it.
> 
> Just putting the code generated for x86 before and after side
> by side would be enough to convince you I think.

If accompanied by similar before/after code for ARM or Power, sure.

							Thanx, Paul

> > I wasn't prioritizing this one very high because it does not appear
> > to be on any sort of fastpath.  If I am wrong about that, then you
> > have a good performance-benefit case, right?  ;-)
> 
> I do not think this needs to be a priority item. Just stick it in the tree
> somewhere to merge for the next merge period.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-16 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-13  1:52 [PATCH v3 6/9] rcu: use __this_cpu_read helper instead of per_cpu_ptr(p, raw_smp_processor_id()) Shan Wei
2012-11-16  8:32 ` Shan Wei
2012-11-16 16:43   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-16 17:42     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-11-16 18:09       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-09  2:21 Shan Wei
2012-11-09 20:14 ` Christoph Lameter

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