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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	rostedt@goodmiss.org, aquini@redhat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Move waiting on contended ticket lock out of line
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:57:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130215155757.GD3324@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxxt4Qu=kSGCuvqh+veotL7P=14mHiFTUUNgkh3UwRiDQ@mail.gmail.com>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Btw, it may end up that almost nobody cares. Modern CPU's are 
> really good at handling the straightforward "save/restore to 
> stack" instructions. One of the reasons I care is not 
> performance per se, butu the fact that I still look at asm 
> code every time I do any performance profiling, and it's 
> absolutely horrible to see the code when you see "ugh, that's 
> pointless". I'm sensitive to the spinlocks in particular, 
> because we've gone back and forth on inlining them before, so 
> I've seen this. But right now I don't think we inline the lock 
> under normal configs *anyway*, so I guess it doesn't much 
> matter.

Yes, right now we only inline non-debug spin_unlock() and 
spin_unlock_irq() [on !PREEMPT] - because that was an 
unconditional win.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-06 20:03 [PATCH -v5 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Rik van Riel
2013-02-06 20:04 ` [PATCH -v5 1/5] x86,smp: move waiting on contended ticket lock out of line Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 12:06   ` [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Move " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 16:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-13 18:30       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-14  0:54         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-14  1:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-14  1:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-14 10:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-14 16:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-15 15:57             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-02-15  6:48         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-02-13 19:08       ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 19:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-13 22:21           ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 22:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-13 23:41               ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-14  1:21                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-14  1:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-14 10:43                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-27 16:42                   ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-27 17:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-27 19:53                       ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-27 20:18                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-27 21:55                           ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]                             ` <CA+55aFwa0EjGG2NUDYVLVBmXJa2k81YiuNO2yggk=GLRQxhhUQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-02-28  2:58                               ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-28  3:19                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-28  4:06                                 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-02-28  4:49                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-28 15:13                                     ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-28 18:22                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-28 20:26                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-28 21:14                                           ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-28 21:58                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-28 22:38                                               ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-28 23:09                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-01  6:42                                                   ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-01 18:18                                                     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-03-01 18:50                                                       ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-01 18:52                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-02-06 20:04 ` [PATCH -v5 2/5] x86,smp: proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 12:07   ` [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Implement " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2013-02-06 20:05 ` [PATCH -v5 3/5] x86,smp: auto tune spinlock backoff delay factor Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 12:08   ` [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Auto " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2013-02-06 20:06 ` [PATCH -v5 4/5] x86,smp: keep spinlock delay values per hashed spinlock address Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 12:09   ` [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Keep " tip-bot for Eric Dumazet
2013-02-06 20:07 ` [PATCH -v5 5/5] x86,smp: limit spinlock delay on virtual machines Rik van Riel
2013-02-07 11:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-07 21:24     ` [PATCH fix " Rik van Riel
2013-02-13 12:10       ` [tip:core/locking] x86/smp: Limit " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2013-02-07 11:25   ` [PATCH -v5 5/5] x86,smp: limit " Stefano Stabellini
2013-02-07 11:59     ` Raghavendra K T
2013-02-07 13:28     ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-06 20:08 ` [PATCH -v5 6/5] x86,smp: add debugging code to track spinlock delay value Rik van Riel

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