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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>,
	Erich Focht <efocht@hpce.nec.com>, Ram <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
	Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>,
	elsa-devel <elsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] fork_connector: add a fork connector
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:05:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503171405.55095.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050318003857.4600af78@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru>

On Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:38 pm, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> The most significant part there - is requirement to store
> u32 seq in each CPU's cache and thus flush cacheline +
> invalidate/get from mem on each other cpus
> each time it is accessed, which is a big price.

Same thing has to happen with the lock.  To put it simply, writing global 
variables from multiple CPUs with anything other than very low frequency is 
bad.

> It is totally Guillaume's work - so he decides,
> I would recomend per cpu counters and processor's
> id in each message.
> And of course userspace should take care of misordered
> messages.
> I personally prefer such mechanism.

Yep, I agree.  Hopefully Guillaume will too :)

Jesse

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-17 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-17  9:04 Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-17 16:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-17 21:38   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-17 22:05     ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2005-03-21  8:23       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-21 12:48       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-21 20:52         ` Ram
2005-03-22  4:36           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-22 18:40             ` Ram
2005-03-22  7:07           ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-22 18:15             ` Jay Lan
2005-03-23  8:15               ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-22 18:26             ` Ram
2005-03-22 19:22               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-22 19:18                 ` Ram
2005-03-22 20:25                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-22 20:42                     ` Ram
2005-03-23  4:52                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-22 22:51                   ` Jay Lan
2005-03-22 23:51                 ` Jay Lan
2005-03-23  5:01                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
     [not found]                     ` <1111557106.23532.65.camel@uganda>
2005-03-23 19:00                       ` Ram
2005-03-25 10:03 Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-25 22:45 ` dean gaudet
2005-03-28 21:42 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-29  7:04   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-29  7:02     ` Greg KH
2005-03-29  7:10       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-29  8:49     ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-29  9:17       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-29 15:23         ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-29 18:44           ` Jay Lan
2005-03-30  1:05             ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  5:39           ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-30  6:35             ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30 10:25               ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-30 10:57                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-30 11:01                 ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-04-01  3:26           ` Drew Hess
2005-03-29 10:29       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-29 17:03         ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-29 21:09           ` Jay Lan
2005-03-29 22:01             ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30 14:14               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-03-30 20:56                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  6:06             ` dean gaudet
2005-03-30  6:25               ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  6:38               ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-30 18:11               ` Jay Lan
2005-03-29  8:05   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-29 14:47     ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-29 12:51   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-29 15:35     ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  5:52       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2005-03-30  6:41         ` Paul Jackson

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