From: Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>, general-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:32:47 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <adaab0tej5c.fsf@cisco.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <adafxalejiq.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> (Roland Dreier's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:24:45 -0700") > So getting those events in the kernel is no problem -- we have the MMU > notifier hooks that tell us exactly what we need to know. The issue is > purely the way userspace registers interest in address ranges, and how > to kernel returns the events. > > For perf counters it seems that one would have to create a new counter > for each address range... is that correct? And also I don't know if > perf counter has an analog for the fast path optimization that > ummunotify provides via a mmap'ed generation counter (a quick way for > userspace to see 'nothing happened since last time you checked'). Oh I forgot... ummunotify also preallocates everything etc. so that there is no way for events to be lost. Which saves userspace from having to trash everything cached and start over, which it would have to do if it misses an invalidate event. And AFAIK, pref counters does have the possibility of overflowing a buffer and losing an event, right? - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:32:47 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <adaab0tej5c.fsf@cisco.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <adafxalejiq.fsf@cisco.com> (Roland Dreier's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:24:45 -0700") > So getting those events in the kernel is no problem -- we have the MMU > notifier hooks that tell us exactly what we need to know. The issue is > purely the way userspace registers interest in address ranges, and how > to kernel returns the events. > > For perf counters it seems that one would have to create a new counter > for each address range... is that correct? And also I don't know if > perf counter has an analog for the fast path optimization that > ummunotify provides via a mmap'ed generation counter (a quick way for > userspace to see 'nothing happened since last time you checked'). Oh I forgot... ummunotify also preallocates everything etc. so that there is no way for events to be lost. Which saves userspace from having to trash everything cached and start over, which it would have to do if it misses an invalidate event. And AFAIK, pref counters does have the possibility of overflowing a buffer and losing an event, right? - R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 14:32 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2009-09-11 4:38 [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Roland Dreier 2009-09-11 4:38 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-15 11:34 ` Pavel Machek [not found] ` <20090915113434.GF1328-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-15 14:57 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier 2009-09-15 14:57 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <ada7hw0gsqz.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-28 20:49 ` Pavel Machek 2009-09-28 20:49 ` Pavel Machek [not found] ` <20090928204923.GA1960-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-28 21:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-09-28 21:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe [not found] ` <aday6omhz9d.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-11 5:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-11 5:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-11 6:03 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier 2009-09-11 6:03 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adatyzahvbm.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-11 6:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-11 6:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [not found] ` <20090911150552.DB68.A69D9226-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-11 16:42 ` Gleb Natapov 2009-09-11 16:42 ` Gleb Natapov 2009-09-11 6:15 ` Brice Goglin [not found] ` <4AA9EAF7.5010401-MZpvjPyXg2s@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-11 6:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-11 6:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-11 6:22 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-11 6:22 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-11 6:40 ` [ofa-general] " Jason Gunthorpe 2009-09-11 6:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe [not found] ` <20090911064019.GZ4973-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-11 16:58 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-11 16:58 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adaljklifkt.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-15 7:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-15 7:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro 2009-09-15 8:27 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-15 8:27 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-15 12:38 ` Jeff Squyres 2009-09-15 12:38 ` Jeff Squyres 2009-09-16 16:30 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-16 16:30 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-16 16:40 ` [ofa-general] " Linus Torvalds 2009-09-16 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds 2009-09-17 11:30 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 11:30 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 14:24 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adafxalejiq.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-17 14:32 ` Roland Dreier [this message] 2009-09-17 14:32 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adaab0tej5c.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-17 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 14:49 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 15:03 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-17 15:03 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adazl8td35u.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-17 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 15:45 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-17 15:45 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <adatyz1d17q.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-18 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-09-18 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-09-29 17:13 ` Pavel Machek 2009-09-29 17:13 ` Pavel Machek [not found] ` <20090929171332.GD14405-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-30 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-09-30 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar [not found] ` <20090930094456.GD24621-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> 2009-09-30 16:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-09-30 16:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe [not found] ` <20090930160232.GZ22310-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-12 18:19 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-10-12 18:19 ` Ingo Molnar [not found] ` <20091012181944.GF17138-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-12 19:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-12 19:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-12 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar [not found] ` <20091012202046.GA7648-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-13 4:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-13 4:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-13 6:40 ` Ingo Molnar [not found] ` <20091013064006.GC9470-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-13 16:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-13 16:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2009-10-13 5:43 ` Brice Goglin [not found] ` <4AD41373.8010108-MZpvjPyXg2s@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-13 6:38 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-10-13 6:38 ` Ingo Molnar 2009-09-30 17:06 ` Roland Dreier 2009-09-30 17:06 ` Roland Dreier 2009-10-02 16:32 ` Roland Dreier 2009-10-02 16:32 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <ada3a61rc3j.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-02 20:45 ` Pavel Machek 2009-10-02 20:45 ` Pavel Machek 2009-10-07 22:34 ` Roland Dreier 2009-10-07 22:34 ` Roland Dreier [not found] ` <ada3a5uq1dk.fsf-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2009-10-12 17:33 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-10-12 17:33 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 14:43 ` Peter Zijlstra 2009-09-17 14:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
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