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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rmap speedup
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 14:43:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4C4E7A.C6707A4C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0208031803050.23404-100000@imladris.surriel.com

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > No joy, I'm afraid.
> 
> > Guess we should instrument it up and make sure that the hashing
> > and index thing is getting the right locality.
> 
> Could it be that your quad needs to go to RAM to grab a cacheline
> that's exclusive on the other CPU while Daniel's machine can just
> shove cachelines from CPU to CPU ?

Could be, Rik.  I don't know.  It's a bit worrisome that we might
be dependent on subtleties like that.

> What I'm referring to is the fact that the pte_chain_locks in
> Daniel's patch are all packed into a few cachelines, instead of
> having each lock on its own cache line...
> 
> This could explain the fact that the locking overhead plummeted
> on Daniel's box while it didn't change at all on your machine.

Oh it helped a bit.   More in 2.4 than 2.5.  Possibly I broke 
Daniel's patch somehow.    But even the improvement in 2.4
from Daniel's patch is disappointing.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-03 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-02 19:42 [PATCH] Rmap speedup Daniel Phillips
2002-08-02 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 21:40   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-03  0:14   ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-03  0:31     ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-03  0:52       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-03  0:56       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-03  3:47   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03  5:24     ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-03 18:43       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 21:40         ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-03 21:54           ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-03 22:49           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 23:55             ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-08-04  0:47             ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-04  1:01               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-04 14:11                 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-04 14:47                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-08-04 16:55                   ` Tobias Ringstrom
2002-08-03 23:36           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-04  0:44             ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-03 21:05       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-03 21:36         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 21:43         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-03 21:41           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 21:24       ` [PATCH] Rmap speedup... call for testing Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 22:05       ` [PATCH] Rmap speedup Daniel Phillips
2002-08-03 22:39         ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-03 22:35           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-04 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-05  0:35   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-05  7:05   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-05 13:48     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-05 13:57       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-05 18:16         ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 18:59     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 19:40       ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 20:17         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 20:34           ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 20:51             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 20:54               ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 22:21                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 22:48                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 20:39           ` Daniel Phillips

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