On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:14:53PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:46:42PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> >>Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>+/*
> >>>+ * For use when we know that interrupts are disabled.
> >>>+ */
> >>>+static inline void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum
> >>>zone_stat_item item, int delta)
> >>>+{
> >>
> >>Before this goes through, I have a full patch to do similar for the
> >>rest of the statistics, and which will make names consistent with what
> >>you have (shouldn't be a lot of clashes though).
> >
> >
> >I also have a patch to change them all to local_t, greatly simplifying
> >it (e.g. the counters can be done inline then)
> >
>
> Cool. That is a patch that should go on top of mine, because most of
> my patch is aimed at moving modifications under interrupts-off sections,
That's obsolete then. With local_t you don't need to turn off interrupts
anymore.
> However I'm still worried about the use of locals tripling the cacheline
> size of a hot-path structure on some 64-bit architectures. Probably we
> should get them to try to move to the atomic64 scheme before using
> local_t here.
I think the right fix for those is to just change the fallback local_t
to disable interrupts again - that should be a better tradeoff and
when they have a better alternative they can implement it in the arch.
(in fact i did a patch for that too, but considered throwing it away
again because I don't have a good way to test it)
-Andi
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