Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c

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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-mm@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2007 - 10:49 am

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

What's the point for this?  Extensive atomic_t use is usually much worse
than spinlocks.  A spinlock region is just a single atomic instruction,
as soon as you do more than one atomic_t you tend to make scalability
worse.  Not to mention that atomic_t are much worse when you try to
profile scalability issues.

What benchmark shows a problem with the current locking, and from what
caller?  In doubt we just need to convert that caller to kmap_atomic.


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[PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Peter Zijlstra, (Sun Jan 28, 10:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Andrew Morton, (Sun Jan 28, 6:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jan 29, 3:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Nick Piggin, (Mon Jan 29, 10:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jan 29, 4:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Hugh Dickins, (Mon Jan 29, 3:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Jan 29, 3:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Jan 29, 5:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Martin J. Bligh, (Mon Jan 29, 9:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Andrew Morton, (Mon Jan 29, 9:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Martin J. Bligh, (Mon Jan 29, 9:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Andrew Morton, (Mon Jan 29, 10:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, David Chinner, (Tue Jan 30, 8:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Andrew Morton, (Tue Jan 30, 9:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, David Chinner, (Tue Jan 30, 11:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Feb 2, 8:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, David Chinner, (Fri Feb 2, 7:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Matt Mackall, (Fri Feb 2, 3:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, David Chinner, (Fri Feb 2, 7:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Nick Piggin, (Sun Jan 28, 10:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 28, 10:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Jan 28, 11:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 28, 11:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Jan 28, 11:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 28, 11:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Jan 28, 2:19 pm)