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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>, Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:36:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CD091A.4060009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456270120-7560-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

On 02/23/2016 03:28 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patchset implementing a cache for the CPU number of the
> currently running thread in user-space.
> 
> Benchmarks comparing this approach to a getcpu based on system call on
> ARM show a 44x speedup. They show a 14x speedup on x86-64 compared to
> executing lsl from a vDSO through glibc.
> 
> I'm added a man page in the changelog of patch 1/3, which shows an
> example usage of this new system call.
> 
> This series is based on v4.5-rc5, submitted for Linux 4.6.
> 
> Feedback is welcome,
> 

What is the resulting context switch overhead?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 23:28 [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6 Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] getcpu_cache system call: cache CPU number of running thread Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24 11:11   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-24 17:17     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25 23:32     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-02-26 17:47       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25  9:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 16:55     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-25 17:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-25 17:17         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-26 11:33           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-26 16:29             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 17:20               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-26 18:01                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-26 20:24                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-26 23:04                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27  0:40                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-27  6:24                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27 14:15                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-27 14:58                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-27 18:35                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-27 19:01                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-27 23:53                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                                   ` <CA+55aFwcgwRxvVBz5kk_3O8dESXAGJ4KHBkf=pSXjiS7Xh4NwA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                                     ` <1082926946.10326.1456619994590.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
2016-02-28  0:57                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-28 14:32                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-29 10:35                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 20:23                                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-03-01 21:32                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 21:36                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-03-01 21:47                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 10:34                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:32                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-29 10:39                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 12:41                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-29 13:08                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-29 18:19                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-02 10:44                                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-01 18:25                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-03-01 18:40                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-28 13:07                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-02-28 16:21                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-29 10:01                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-02-27 15:04                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] getcpu_cache: ARM resume notifier Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] getcpu_cache: wire up ARM system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24  0:54   ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  1:05   ` [PATCH v4 (updated)] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24  5:28     ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-24  6:54     ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] getcpu_cache: x86 32/64 resume notifier Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-23 23:28 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] getcpu_cache: wire up x86 32/64 system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24  1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-02-24  4:09   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] getcpu_cache system call for 4.6 Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-24 20:07     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-24 22:38       ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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