From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:39:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBE567B.5030003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287537221.15980.3.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>
On 10/19/2010 06:13 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:34 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>
>>> +static int tlb_vector_offset[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
>>
>> Never use NR_CPUS. Always use per cpu data.
>>
>> Otherwise you waste a lot of space on a CONFIG_MAX_SMP
>> kernel running on a smaller box.
> ha, I want it to be __read_mostly to avoid cache pollution, apparently
> we have no per cpu API to do this. Maybe I need add one.
>
Quite possible, however, definitely percpu over a static array.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 7:41 [patch]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes Shaohua Li
2010-10-13 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-13 8:39 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-13 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 5:39 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-19 6:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-19 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 8:55 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-19 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19 13:28 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-19 13:34 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20 1:13 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-20 2:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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