Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224Ab0AHW0x (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:26:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753622Ab0AHW0w (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:26:52 -0500 Received: from nlpi129.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.143]:37915 "EHLO nlpi129.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753180Ab0AHW0v (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:26:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:46:26 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: Linus Torvalds cc: Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , "Paul E. McKenney" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "hugh.dickins" , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100104182429.833180340@chello.nl> <20100104182813.753545361@chello.nl> <20100105092559.1de8b613.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <28c262361001042029w4b95f226lf54a3ed6a4291a3b@mail.gmail.com> <20100105134357.4bfb4951.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100105143046.73938ea2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100105163939.a3f146fb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106092212.c8766aa8.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106115233.5621bd5e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106125625.b02c1b3a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 17 On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We worried about the effects of fair spinlocks when introducing the ticket > locks, but nobody ever actually had a load that seemed to indicate it made > much of a difference, and we did have a few cases where starvation was a > very noticeable problem. And I made the point that starvation was a hardware issue due to immature cacheline handling. Now the software patchup job for the hardware breakage is causing regressions for everyone. -- 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/