Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750800AbWHIB4c (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751209AbWHIB4b (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:56:31 -0400 Received: from smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.214]:46931 "HELO smtp104.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750800AbWHIB4b (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:56:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=opCWj4ylSSMDjbIVDtcr6pYDEpuc9NthONTPxiAKi4dV8YXAoYpnF3cU0ZjEnaDsYCKSY5YPeV0BD3KmRooU1ziphKPu0jXwjmHhGnTIF3TTDLiwkR+QvUAOGP4SUmIlDU0goHR5Aiz+qXn455hkupebF68YwH38JJtkbaX5cPM= ; Message-ID: <44D940CA.9040608@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:56:26 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060216 Debian/1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Dumazet CC: Ulrich Drepper , Andi Kleen , Ravikiran G Thirumalai , "Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" , pravin b shelar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] NUMA futex hashing References: <20060808070708.GA3931@localhost.localdomain> <200608081808.34708.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <44D8BD29.4010102@yahoo.com.au> <200608081849.28458.dada1@cosmosbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200608081849.28458.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 35 Eric Dumazet wrote: >On Tuesday 08 August 2006 18:34, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >>>We certainly can. But if you insist of using mmap sem at all, then we >>>have a problem. >>> >>>rbtree would not reduce cacheline bouncing, so : >>> >>>We could use a hashtable (allocated on demand) of size N, N depending on >>>NR_CPUS for example. each chain protected by a private spinlock. If N is >>>well chosen, we might reduce lock cacheline bouncing. (different threads >>>fighting on different private futexes would have a good chance to get >>>different cachelines in this hashtable) >>> >>See other mail. We already have a hash table ;) >> > >Yes but still you want at FUTEX_WAIT time to tell the kernel the futex is >private to this process. > Yes, but I'm saying we already have a hash table. The hash table. I'm *not* saying you *don't* also want a private directive from userspace. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/