Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:08:56 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARKS] 2.6.4 vs 2.6.4-mm1 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
>your patch looks interesting. > >
I'll see if I can get some numbers for it soon.
>wrt. making a fully scalable MM read side: > >perphaps RCU could be used to make lookup access to the vma tree and >lookup of the pagetables lockless. This would make futexes (and >pagefaults) fundamentally scalable. > >another option would be to introduce a rwsem which is read-scalable, but >this would pessimise writes quite as bad as brlocks did. I'm not sure >how acceptable that is. > >
It is a pretty silly benchmark. But I guess one day someone is going to complain about mm scalability. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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