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Message-ID: <47BB4AB8.9020509@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:31:36 -0800
From: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Alan.Brunelle@...com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de, dgc@....com,
arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: IO queueing and complete affinity w/ threads: Some results
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Jens wrote:
>> My main worry with the current code is the ->lock in the per-cpu
>> completion structure.
>
> Drive-by-comment here: Does the patch posted later this same day by Mike Travis:
>
> [PATCH 0/2] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses v3
>
> help with this lock issue any? (I have no real clue here -- just connecting
> up the pretty colored dots ;).
>
I'm not sure of the context here but a big motivation for doing the
zero-based per_cpu variables was to optimize access to the local
per cpu variables to one instruction, reducing the need for locks.
-Mike
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