Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756148Ab3H3K5n (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:57:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:40209 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755738Ab3H3K5k (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:57:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20130830105215.GH10002@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <52200DAE.2020303@hp.com> <20130830094857.GA14502@gmail.com> <20130830103633.GG10002@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130830105215.GH10002@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:57:38 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount From: Sedat Dilek To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Waiman Long , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Alexander Viro , Jeff Layton , Miklos Szeredi , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Steven Rostedt , Andi Kleen , "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" , "Norton, Scott J" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1915 Lines: 58 On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:44:29PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> Please, see advices in 'tools/Makefile': >> >> @echo 'You can do:' >> @echo ' $$ make -C tools/ _install' >> @echo '' >> @echo ' from the kernel command line to build and install one of' >> @echo ' the tools above' >> @echo '' >> @echo ' $$ make tools/install' >> @echo '' >> @echo ' installs all tools.' > > I never follow advice :-) Muwhaha, also I'm generally not interested in > 'all' tools anywya. > >> If you tell me where you discuss perf issues I can describe the problem. > > On this list, start a new thread CC ingo, acme and me. There's also an > IRC channel but I keep forgetting what the official channel is and I'm > likely not on it. I do tend to abuse irc.oftc.net/#linux-rt for it since > most people are on there anyway. Hi rebel :-)! I was away from IRC for quite a year. I will write some words... - Sedat - P.S.: It worked... $ ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf --version perf version 3.11.rc7.ga7370 $ ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf stat --null --repeat 5 ./t_lockref_from-linus Total loops: 2652351 Total loops: 2604876 Total loops: 2649696 Total loops: 2651417 Total loops: 2644068 Performance counter stats for './t_lockref_from-linus' (5 runs): 10,002926693 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0,00% ) $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.11.0-rc7-1-lockref-small (sedat.dilek@gmail.com@fambox) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #1 SMP Fri Aug 30 10:23:19 CEST 2013 -- 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/