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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, espfix: use spin_lock rather than mutex
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:27:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55559FDA.3010205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150515065417.GB29973@gmail.com>

On 05/14/2015 11:54 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> The only slightly subtle detail with that is to use alloc_pages_node()
> with the secondary CPU's node, to make sure the espfix stack is
> NUMA-local to the CPU that is going to use it.
>

It doesn't hurt, although it isn't super critical as each page will be 
shared among 64 CPUs.  The whole espfix stack is only a single cacheline 
long.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 11:37 [RFC PATCH] x86, espfix: use spin_lock rather than mutex Gu Zheng
2015-05-14 12:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-14 18:29   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-14 21:27     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-14 22:13       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-05-15  6:54         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15  7:27           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-05-18 19:43             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-19 15:04               ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-05-22 10:13                 ` [RFC PATCH] x86, espfix: postpone the initialization of espfix stack for AP Gu Zheng
2015-05-28  1:20                   ` Gu Zheng
2015-05-29  1:07                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-29  0:57                       ` Gu Zheng
2015-06-02  9:23                       ` Gu Zheng
2015-06-02  9:25                       ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Gu Zheng
2015-06-02 11:59                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-03  9:58                           ` Gu Zheng
2015-06-04  9:45                         ` [PATCH V1] " Gu Zheng
2015-06-17  5:53                           ` Zhu Guihua
2015-06-17  7:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-17 21:04                             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-17 21:11                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-17 21:50                                 ` Borislav Petkov

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