From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
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Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>, Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8 1/9] Restartable sequences system call
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:24:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160819212423.623v5leqknfrxhpd@x> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160819205611.GF5871@two.firstfloor.org>
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:56:11PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Nobody gets a cpu number just to get a cpu number - it's not a useful
> > thing to benchmark. What does getcpu() so much that we care?
>
> malloc is the primary target I believe. Saves lots of memory to keep
> caches per CPU rather than per thread.
Also improves locality; that does seem like a good idea. Has anyone
written and tested the corresponding changes to a malloc implementation?
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-19 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-19 20:07 [RFC PATCH v8 0/9] Restartable sequences system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 1/9] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-08-19 20:44 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-19 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-08-19 20:56 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-19 21:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-08-19 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-08-19 23:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-08-19 21:24 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2016-08-19 22:59 ` Dave Watson
2016-08-25 17:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-25 17:56 ` Ben Maurer
2016-08-27 4:22 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-29 15:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-29 16:10 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-30 2:01 ` Boqun Feng
2016-08-27 12:21 ` Pavel Machek
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 2/9] tracing: instrument restartable sequences Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 3/9] Restartable sequences: ARM 32 architecture support Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 4/9] Restartable sequences: wire up ARM 32 system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 5/9] Restartable sequences: x86 32/64 architecture support Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 6/9] Restartable sequences: wire up x86 32/64 system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 7/9] Restartable sequences: powerpc architecture support Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 8/9] Restartable sequences: Wire up powerpc system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-08-19 20:07 ` [RFC PATCH v8 9/9] Restartable sequences: self-tests Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-11-26 23:43 [RFC PATCH v8 1/9] Restartable sequences system call Paul Turner
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