From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuacct: add a branch prediction
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18855.27479.443830.724534@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090226122623.GC23099@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar writes:
> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:06 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > > Hmm.. some routine like
> > > atomic64_read() can help this ? (But I don't want to use atomic_t here..)
> >
> > Yeah, atomic64_t has been proposed numerous times, and x86
> > could actually implement that using cmpxchg8b, just not sure
> > about all the other 32bit archs, and if we start using it in
> > the scheduler, they'd better have it implemented.
>
> I have written a working atomic64_t implementation for
> tip:perfcounters/core, for 32-bit x86.
atomic64_t would be a big problem for 32-bit powerpc. We'd have to
use an array of spinlocks, or make atomic64_t actually be 12 bytes so
we have a lock word to use.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-26 7:40 [PATCH] cpuacct: add a branch prediction Li Zefan
2009-02-26 8:07 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 8:17 ` Li Zefan
2009-02-26 8:22 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 8:35 ` Li Zefan
2009-02-26 8:40 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 10:10 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-02-26 10:28 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 10:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 11:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 11:17 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 11:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 12:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-26 12:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-27 4:25 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-02-26 16:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-27 0:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-27 1:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-27 3:22 ` [RFC][PATCH] remove rq->lock from cpuacct cgroup (Was " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-02 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:42 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-03 7:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-03 9:04 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-03 9:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-03 10:42 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-03 10:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-03 11:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-04 6:32 ` [PATCH] remove rq->lock from cpuacct cgroup v2 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-04 7:54 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-04 8:20 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-04 8:46 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-03-04 10:35 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-04 12:11 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-03-04 14:17 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-26 8:37 ` [PATCH] cpuacct: add a branch prediction Balbir Singh
2009-02-26 8:41 ` Li Zefan
2009-02-26 10:40 ` Balbir Singh
2009-02-26 10:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-26 8:43 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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