From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@zwane.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] make cpu_sibling_map a cpumask_t
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:59:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208155904.GF19412@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD3FD52.7020001@cyberone.com.au>
> I'm not aware of any reason why the kernel should not become generally
> SMT aware. It is sufficiently different to SMP that it is worth
> specialising it, although I am only aware of P4 and POWER5 implementations.
I agree, SMT is likely to become more popular in the coming years.
> I have an alternative to Ingo's HT scheduler which basically does
> the same thing. It is showing a 20% elapsed time improvement with a
> make -j3 on a 2xP4 Xeon (4 logical CPUs).
>
> Before Ingo's is merged, I would like to discuss the pros and cons of
> both approaches with those interested. If Ingo's is accepted I should
> still be able to port my other SMP/NUMA improvements on top of it.
Sounds good, have you got anything to test? I can throw it on a POWER5.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-08 4:25 [PATCH][RFC] make cpu_sibling_map a cpumask_t Nick Piggin
2003-12-08 15:59 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2003-12-08 23:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-09 0:14 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-12-11 4:25 ` [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 7:24 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 8:57 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 11:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 13:09 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 13:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 13:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 13:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 15:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 15:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 15:51 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 15:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 16:37 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 16:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-12 1:52 ` [PATCH] improve rwsem scalability (was Re: [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler) Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-12-13 0:07 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-14 0:44 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-17 5:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-19 11:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-19 15:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-20 0:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 0:58 ` [CFT][RFC] HT scheduler Rusty Russell
2003-12-11 10:01 ` Rhino
2003-12-11 8:14 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 16:49 ` Rhino
2003-12-11 15:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 11:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 17:05 ` Rhino
2003-12-11 15:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 16:28 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-12-11 16:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 2:24 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-12 7:00 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 7:23 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-13 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-14 1:35 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-14 2:18 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-14 4:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-14 9:40 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-14 10:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-16 17:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-16 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 0:24 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-17 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 0:54 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-16 17:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-15 5:53 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-15 23:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-19 4:57 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-19 5:13 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-20 2:43 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-21 2:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-03 18:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-15 20:21 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-15 23:20 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-16 0:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-12 8:59 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-12 15:14 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-08 19:44 ` [PATCH][RFC] make cpu_sibling_map a cpumask_t James Cleverdon
2003-12-08 20:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-12-08 20:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-08 20:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-12-08 23:17 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-08 23:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-12-08 23:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-08 23:46 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-09 13:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 21:41 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 4:54 Nakajima, Jun
2003-12-09 19:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
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