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Message-ID: <1327591185.2446.102.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:19:45 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Subject: Re: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 12:01 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Gilad Ben-Yossef (8):
>   smp: introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask function
>   arm: move arm over to generic on_each_cpu_mask
>   tile: move tile to use generic on_each_cpu_mask
>   smp: add func to IPI cpus based on parameter func
>   slub: only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush
>   fs: only send IPI to invalidate LRU BH when needed
>   mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist

These patches look very nice!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>


>   mm: add vmstat counters for tracking PCP drains
> 
I understood from previous postings this patch wasn't meant for
inclusion, if it is, note that cpumask_weight() is a potentially very
expensive operation.
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