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Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction rollback

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction rollback
Date 2015-10-20 10:50 +0200
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* Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> wrote:

> > So it would be nice to create a new user-space spinlock testing facility, via 
> > a new 'perf bench spinlock' feature or so. That way others can test and 
> > validate your results on different hardware as well.
>
> Attached the spinlock test module . Queued spinlock will run very slowly in user 
> space because process switch context, it is OK for spinlock-test implementation 
> with kernel module ?

Not sure what you mean by 'because process switch context': if you pin the test 
tasks to individual CPUs and make sure there's nothing else running it should be 
equivalent to kernel-space execution.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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[RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction rollback ling.ma.program@gmail.com - 2015-10-19 04:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-19 10:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-19 11:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-19 13:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction  rollback Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-10-19 19:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-20 10:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-20 11:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-19 11:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction  rollback Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-10-19 19:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-19 11:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-20 11:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction  rollback Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-10-19 19:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 05:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load instruction  rollback Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-10-20 21:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] qspinlock: Improve performance by reducing load  instruction rollback Ling Ma <ling.ma.program@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:50 +0200

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