From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, starvik@axis.com, ralf@linux-mips.org,
davem@davemloft.net, cooloney@kernel.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, takata@linux-m32r.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, rth@twiddle.net,
ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:49:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401154913.GA31435@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904010948120.7643@qirst.com>
* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > > 1. Lot of unnecessary use of __read_mostly for local static variables that
> > > are not on the hotpath. Patch follows in this message.
> >
> > Hmmm... Those are basically read-only vars once initialization is
> > complete. IIUC, __read_mostly just puts the tagged variables into a
> > separate segment so that they don't have to worry about cacheline
> > bouncing. Is there any reason to remove __read_mostly? Or is it just
> > that it's mostly superflous?
>
> Yes its better for the variables to be all together if its not on hot
> cache paths. And its better to keep the __read_mostly segment reserved for
> frequently accessed variables.
We need __access_rarely i guess.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 7:53 [GIT RFC] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archs Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] percpu: make x86 addr <-> pcpu ptr conversion macros generic Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] percpu: more flexibility for @dyn_size of pcpu_setup_first_chunk() Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] percpu: generalize embedding first chunk setup helper Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 7:57 ` test module to verify " Tejun Heo
2009-03-10 10:59 ` [GIT RFC] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default " David Miller
2009-03-11 6:03 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-11 5:56 ` [GIT PULL] pull request for safe part Tejun Heo
2009-03-16 18:01 ` [GIT RFC] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-20 2:35 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 15:22 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-25 11:27 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-25 11:51 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-25 12:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 12:27 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-25 12:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 13:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-25 13:21 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-25 13:25 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-25 13:34 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 16:54 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-31 17:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-31 20:18 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-31 21:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-01 8:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-31 19:17 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-03-31 20:19 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-31 20:29 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-01 0:07 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 8:10 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 8:17 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 8:32 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 8:37 ` David Miller
2009-04-01 8:47 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 8:50 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 9:08 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-02 1:54 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 8:53 ` David Miller
2009-04-01 8:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 11:07 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-02 1:57 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-02 7:24 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-02 11:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-03 0:31 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-07 16:09 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-08 20:18 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-09 9:47 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-09 11:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-11 1:38 ` Rusty Russell
2009-04-11 1:52 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-02 0:20 ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-25 14:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-25 14:14 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-30 10:07 ` [PATCH UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2009-03-30 10:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 0:08 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-30 11:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-30 14:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-31 16:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-01 0:15 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 13:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-01 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-01 18:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-01 19:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-01 20:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-02 2:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 22:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 22:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-02 2:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02 2:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-02 3:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02 3:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-02 2:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-02 2:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-02 3:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02 13:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-08 16:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-14 14:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-14 17:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02 2:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-02 4:19 ` [PATCH 1/2 x86#core/percpu] percpu: don't put the first chunk in reverse-map rbtree Tejun Heo
2009-04-02 4:21 ` [PATCH 2/2 x86#core/percpu] percpu: remove rbtree and use page->index instead Tejun Heo
2009-04-08 17:03 ` [tip:core/percpu] " Christoph Lameter
2009-04-08 17:03 ` [tip:core/percpu] percpu: don't put the first chunk in reverse-map rbtree Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 16:14 ` [PATCH UPDATED] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator Christoph Lameter
2009-04-01 0:18 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 1:34 ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-31 22:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-31 23:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-04-01 0:19 ` Tejun Heo
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