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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:41:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzhbhYK27n9C7WOgf=0NcmewpE+J6giKQhjAgare52gFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130903101522.GA22369@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> One more thing to try would be a regular '-e cycles' non-PEBS run and see
> whether there's still largish overhead visible around that instruction.

I've done that, and it matches the PEBS runs, except obviously with
the instruction skew (so then depending on run it's 95% the
instruction after the xadd). So the PEBS profiles are entirely
consistent with other data.

              Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-03 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 151+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06  3:12 [PATCH v7 0/4] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock Waiman Long
2013-08-06  3:12 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount Waiman Long
2013-08-29  1:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-29  4:44     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-29  7:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-29 16:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-29 19:25           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-29 23:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  0:26               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-30  0:49                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  2:06                   ` Michael Neuling
2013-08-30  2:30                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-30  2:35                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  2:45                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-30  2:31                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  2:43                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-30  7:16                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-30 15:28                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  3:12               ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30  3:54                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30  7:55                   ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30  8:10                     ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30  9:27                     ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30  9:48                       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-30  9:56                         ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30  9:58                           ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 10:29                             ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 10:36                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 10:44                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 10:46                                   ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 10:52                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 10:57                                     ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 14:05                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 11:19                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 10:38                               ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 15:34                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 15:38                         ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 16:12                           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 16:16                             ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 18:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 16:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 16:37                             ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 16:52                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 17:11                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 17:26                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 10:01                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-01 10:33                                   ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-01 15:32                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 15:45                                     ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-01 15:55                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-02 10:30                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-02 16:09                                           ` David Ahern
2013-09-01 20:59                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 21:23                                       ` Al Viro
2013-09-01 22:16                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 22:35                                           ` Al Viro
2013-09-01 22:44                                             ` Al Viro
2013-09-01 22:58                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 22:48                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 23:30                                             ` Al Viro
2013-09-02  0:12                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-02  0:50                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-02  7:05                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-02 16:44                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 10:15                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-03 15:41                                                         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2013-09-03 18:34                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 19:19                                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-03 21:05                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 21:13                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 21:34                                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 21:39                                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 14:08                                                       ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-03 22:37                                     ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-03 22:55                                       ` Dave Jones
2013-09-03 23:05                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-03 23:15                                           ` Dave Jones
2013-09-03 23:20                                             ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-03 23:45                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2013-08-30 18:33                   ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 18:53                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 19:20                       ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 19:33                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 20:15                           ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 20:43                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 20:54                               ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 21:03                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 21:44                                   ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 22:30                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-31 21:23                                       ` Al Viro
2013-08-31 22:49                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-31 23:27                                           ` Al Viro
2013-09-01  0:13                                             ` Al Viro
2013-09-01 17:48                                               ` Al Viro
2013-09-09  8:30                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 21:10                                 ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 21:22                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 21:30                                   ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 21:42                                     ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 19:40                         ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 19:52                           ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 20:26                             ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 20:35                               ` Waiman Long
2013-08-30 20:48                                 ` Al Viro
2013-08-31  2:02                                   ` Waiman Long
2013-08-31  2:35                                     ` Al Viro
2013-08-31  2:42                                       ` Al Viro
2013-09-02 19:25                                         ` Waiman Long
2013-09-03  6:01                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-03  7:24                                             ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-03 15:38                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 15:14                                             ` Waiman Long
2013-09-03 15:34                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 19:09                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 21:01                                                   ` Waiman Long
2013-09-04 14:52                                                   ` Waiman Long
2013-09-04 15:14                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-04 19:25                                                       ` Waiman Long
2013-09-04 21:34                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-05  2:35                                                           ` Waiman Long
2013-09-05 13:31                                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-05 17:33                                                       ` Waiman Long
2013-09-05 17:40                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-03 22:41                                               ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-03 23:11                                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2013-09-08 21:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09  0:03                 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09  0:25                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09  0:35                     ` Al Viro
2013-09-09  0:38                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09  0:57                         ` Al Viro
2013-09-09  2:09                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09  0:30                   ` Al Viro
2013-09-09  3:32                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09  4:06                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09  5:44                     ` Al Viro
2013-08-30 17:17           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 17:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 17:33               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-29 15:20     ` Waiman Long
2013-08-06  3:12 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] spinlock: Enable x86 architecture to do lockless refcount update Waiman Long
2013-08-06  3:12 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] dcache: replace d_lock/d_count by d_lockcnt Waiman Long
2013-08-06  3:12 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] dcache: Enable lockless update of dentry's refcount Waiman Long
2013-08-13 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock Waiman Long
2013-08-31  3:06 [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount George Spelvin
2013-08-31 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01  8:50   ` George Spelvin
2013-09-01 11:10     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-01 15:49       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-01 18:11         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-01 20:03           ` Linus Torvalds

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