From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, andrea@suse.de,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:05:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB0F180.4787752C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251723160.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>, <20010925.131528.78383994.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109251723160.26091-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <20010925.132816.52117370.davem@redhat.com>
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:24:21 -0300 (BRST)
>
> Or were you measuring loads which are mostly read-only ?
>
> When Kanoj Sarcar was back at SGI testing 32 processor Origin
> MIPS systems, pagecache_lock was at the top.
But when I asked kumon to test it on his 8-way Xeon,
page_cache_lock contention proved to be insignificant.
Seems to only be a NUMA thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-25 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 17:49 Locking comment on shrink_caches() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 19:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 20:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:16 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-25 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:01 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 20:20 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 20:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-26 17:43 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:24 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-26 18:48 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-26 18:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-26 17:45 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:59 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 18:09 ` Padraig Brady
2001-09-26 18:22 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 18:40 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-26 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 12:22 ` CPU frequency shifting "problems" Padraig Brady
2001-09-27 12:44 ` Dave Jones
2001-09-27 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 0:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-28 2:12 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-09-28 8:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-28 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-28 22:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-26 19:04 ` Locking comment on shrink_caches() George Greer
2001-09-26 18:59 ` George Greer
2001-09-26 23:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-27 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 17:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-27 19:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-27 22:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-25 22:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25 20:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 21:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-09-25 21:48 ` David S. Miller
[not found] ` <200109252215.f8PMFDa02034@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2001-09-25 22:26 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 17:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-09-25 22:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 22:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-25 22:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-25 20:40 ` Josh MacDonald
2001-09-25 19:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-25 21:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-26 5:04 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-26 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-26 6:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-26 7:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-26 16:52 ` John Hawkes
[not found] <fa.cbgmt3v.192gc8r@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.cd0mtbv.1aigc0v@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <i1m66a5o1zc.fsf@verden.pvv.ntnu.no>
2001-09-27 1:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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