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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] smp_call_function: use rwlocks on queues rather than rcu
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14:37PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> >> RCU is problematic because it lets cachelines get cold. A hot cacheline that
> >> is used frequently read and written to by the same cpu is very good thing for
> >> performace.
> >
> > So on your these large boxes, read-only cachelines are preferentially
> > ejected from the cache, so that one should write to per-CPU data
> > occasionally to keep it resident? Or is the issue the long RCU grace
> > periods which allow the structure being freed to age out of all relevant
> > caches? (My guess would be the second.)
>
> The issue are the RCU grace period that are generally long enough to make the
> cacheline fall out of all caches.

Would it make sense to push the freed-by-RCU memory further up the
hierarchy, so that such memory is not mistaken for recently freed
hot-in-cache memory?

Thanx, Paul


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