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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com,
	dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:40:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220104043.GB7691@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51248E59.2010907@intel.com>


* Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:

> > Alex, could you go through my patch and see if there is 
> > anything you find objectionable ? (if not about the details, 
> > at least about the general approach of enabling writer lock 
> > stealing on the fast path)
> 
> I did a quick review on the patchset and tested the patches 
> 1~3, and 1~3 plus 4th, my patch plus 4th.
> 
> The patch looks much complicated, and also goes writing slow 
> path to steal locking. My patch looks quite straight and 
> simple.
> 
> This 1~3 patch has very very similar performance effect with 
> mine.
> 
> The highlight patch is the 4th, seems it can provide about ~2% 
> aim7 performance gain(base on both of mine or patches 1~3) on 
> my 4S NHM EX machine.

That speedup would be nice to have.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-09  2:45 [PATCH 0/4] rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-09  2:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] rwsem: make the waiter type an enumeration rather than a bitmask Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-09  2:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] rwsem: shorter spinlocked section in rwsem_down_failed_common() Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-09  2:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] rwsem: implement write lock stealing Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-09  7:30   ` Hillf Danton
2013-02-09  7:42     ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-09 13:11       ` Hillf Danton
2013-02-09  2:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86 rwsem: avoid taking slow path when stealing write lock Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-13 13:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing Alex Shi
2013-02-13 14:49   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-14  1:31     ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-14 12:08       ` Alex Shi
2013-02-20  8:50       ` Alex Shi
2013-02-20 10:40         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-02-20 16:50         ` Michel Lespinasse

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