From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Alan.Brunelle@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
npiggin@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: IO queueing and complete affinity w/ threads: Some results
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:31:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BB4AB8.9020509@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080219151418.97557f0f.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Jens wrote:
>> My main worry with the current code is the ->lock in the per-cpu
>> completion structure.
>
> Drive-by-comment here: Does the patch posted later this same day by Mike Travis:
>
> [PATCH 0/2] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses v3
>
> help with this lock issue any? (I have no real clue here -- just connecting
> up the pretty colored dots ;).
>
I'm not sure of the context here but a big motivation for doing the
zero-based per_cpu variables was to optimize access to the local
per cpu variables to one instruction, reducing the need for locks.
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 20:56 Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-12 20:56 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-12 22:08 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-12 22:26 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-13 15:35 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-14 15:36 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-02-18 12:37 ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-18 13:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 14:16 ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19 1:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-19 21:14 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-19 21:31 ` Mike Travis [this message]
2008-02-20 8:08 ` Jens Axboe
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