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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aquini@redhat.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, lwoodman@redhat.com, knoel@redhat.com,
	chegu_vinod@hp.com, raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 4/5] x86,smp: keep spinlock delay values per hashed spinlock address
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:10:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5112B8A2.8050800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689EAykWXS4QTVDKaCb4in_2b_Bqyoh-xg=EbX7ivOPry4w@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/27/2013 08:04 AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
>> +       u32 delay = (ent->hash == hash) ? ent->delay : MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY;
>
> I still don't like the reseting of delay to MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY when
> there is a hash collision.

I've been spending some time looking at this, because I am
not a fan either.

However, it seems to work and I failed to come up with
anything better. Therefore, I have left it as is in the
-v5 patch series.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 19:05 [PATCH -v4 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Rik van Riel
2013-01-25 19:16 ` [PATCH -v4 1/5] x86,smp: move waiting on contended ticket lock out of line Rik van Riel
2013-01-25 19:17 ` [PATCH -v4 2/5] x86,smp: proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks Rik van Riel
2013-01-25 19:17 ` [PATCH -v4 3/5] x86,smp: auto tune spinlock backoff delay factor Rik van Riel
2013-01-26 12:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-25 19:18 ` [PATCH -v4 4/5] x86,smp: keep spinlock delay values per hashed spinlock address Rik van Riel
2013-01-27 13:04   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-02-06 20:10     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-02-09 23:50       ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-25 19:19 ` [PATCH -v4 5/5] x86,smp: limit spinlock delay on virtual machines Rik van Riel
2013-01-26 12:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-26 12:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-04 13:50       ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-04 14:02         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-06 17:05           ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-28 18:18   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-25 19:20 ` [DEBUG PATCH -v4 6/5] x86,smp: add debugging code to track spinlock delay value Rik van Riel
2013-01-26  7:21 ` [PATCH -v4 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Mike Galbraith
2013-01-26 12:05   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-26 13:10     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  6:49 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-02-03 15:28 ` Chegu Vinod

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