From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>, rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.16 02/21] rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call (v12)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:14:00 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1712141512360.8945@nuc-kabylake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1537392285.34532.1513279478488.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> If we port this concept to kernel-space (as I start to understand
> would be your wish), then a simple pointer store to the current
> task_struct would suffice.
Certainly such a port would be beneficial for non x86 archs.
But my company has extensive user space code that maintains a lot of
counters and does other tricks to get full performance out of the
hardware. Such a mechanism would also be good from user space. Why keep
the good stuff only inside the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-14 16:13 [RFC PATCH for 4.16 00/21] Restartable sequences and CPU op vector Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 01/21] uapi headers: Provide types_32_64.h Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 02/21] rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call (v12) Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:44 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-14 18:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <12046460.34426.1513275177081.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 18:50 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-14 19:24 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 21:14 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2017-12-14 21:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-15 15:05 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-15 16:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <729438855.35910.1513356742518.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-15 17:13 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-14 19:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-14 19:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <1772818221.34575.1513281428902.JavaMail.zimbra-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 20:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 03/21] arm: Add restartable sequences support Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 04/21] arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 05/21] x86: Add support for restartable sequences Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 06/21] x86: Wire up restartable sequence system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 08/21] powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences " Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 09/21] sched: Implement push_task_to_cpu Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 10/21] cpu_opv: Provide cpu_opv system call (v5) Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20171214161403.30643-11-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2018-02-12 15:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 11/21] x86: Wire up cpu_opv system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 12/21] powerpc: " Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 14/21] selftests: lib.mk: Introduce OVERRIDE_TARGETS Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 15/21] cpu_opv: selftests: Implement selftests (v6) Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 16/21] rseq: selftests: Provide rseq library (v5) Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20171214161403.30643-1-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 07/21] powerpc: Add support for restartable sequences Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 13/21] arm: Wire up cpu_opv system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 17/21] rseq: selftests: Provide percpu_op API Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 18/21] rseq: selftests: Provide basic test Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 19/21] rseq: selftests: Provide basic percpu ops test Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 20/21] rseq: selftests: Provide parametrized tests Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-12-14 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.16 21/21] rseq: selftests: Provide Makefile, scripts, gitignore Mathieu Desnoyers
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