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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] reduce 'd' debug key's global   impact
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:05:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C80844FC.13630%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE2966B0200007800001837@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On 06/05/2010 09:14, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

>>>> Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> 06.05.10 10:01 >>>
>> Although I suppose the event-check vector has a cleaner interface for
>> calling it and should be implemented for all architectures. If you add
>> whatever new flag you need to irq_cpustat_t then it would be cheap to check,
>> being a definite cache hit. I suppose each cpu would
>> check-and-check-and-clear it, and then set it for the next CPU when it is
>> done. That doesn't sound too bad.
> 
> Hmm, isn't irq_cpustat_t being used mostly on the local CPU so far,
> and hence introducing reasons for bouncing the cache line wouldn't
> be nice?

It would only get bounced when the 'd' key is pressed, right? I think we
could tolerate that frequency of bounce. :-)

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05 15:34 [PATCH, v2] reduce 'd' debug key's global impact Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  6:46 ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  7:42   ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-06  8:01     ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-06  8:14       ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  9:05         ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-05-06  9:07       ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  9:15         ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-06  9:25           ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  9:37             ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-06  8:07     ` Jan Beulich
2010-05-06  9:09       ` Keir Fraser

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