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From: "Takashi Nishiie" <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002801c89adc$ec4533e0$c4cf9ba0$@css.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080409150829.855195878@polymtl.ca>

Hi Mathieu

> Here is the complete patchset required to get basic Immediate Values 
> support ported to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1. It provides the "simple", non 
> nmi-safe version of immediate values, which means that immediate 
> values should not be used in code paths reachable by NMI or MCE 
> handlers. This version also uses
> stop_machine_run() for immediate values updates, which is a very heavy 
> lock.  In order to make incremental, easy to review, changes, I think 
> we could start by this "simple" version as a first step before we 
> switch to the nmi-safe version later.

I am interested in the performance improvement of "marker."
It is important in arguing that it is "simple."
I will help debug and testing.

Thanks





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09 15:08 Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 01/17] Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instruction pages list Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 20:08   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 02/17] Kprobes - do not use kprobes mutex in arch code Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 20:08   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 03/17] Kprobes - declare kprobe_mutex static Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 20:08   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 04/17] x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support - alternatives Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 05/17] x86 Fix text_poke for vmalloced pages Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 06/17] x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support for hotplug and kprobes Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 07/17] Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 08/17] Text Edit Lock - kprobes architecture independent support Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 09/17] Add all cpus option to stop machine run Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 18:10   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-09 18:24     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-10  3:34       ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-10  4:26       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-09 18:54     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 10/17] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 11/17] Implement immediate update via stop_machine_run Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10  8:04   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-10 20:01     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-11  4:50       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 12/17] Immediate Values - Kconfig menu in EMBEDDED Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10  3:23   ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-10 19:32     ` [patch 12/17] Immediate Values - Kconfig menu in EMBEDDED (updated) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10 21:54       ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-14 23:52         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 18:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-09 19:08     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 22:33       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-10  0:42         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10  0:47           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-09 20:21     ` [patch 13/17] Immediate Values - x86 Optimization (updated) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 22:33       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-09 23:15         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 14/17] Add text_poke and sync_core to powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 15/17] Immediate Values - Powerpc Optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 16/17] Immediate Values - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10  3:33   ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-11  1:16     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-11 15:06       ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-15  0:12         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-11 13:44     ` [RFC PATCH] Immediate Values Support init Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-09 15:08 ` [patch 17/17] Scheduler Profiling - Use Immediate Values Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-10  4:23 ` [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-04-10  7:31 ` Takashi Nishiie [this message]

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