Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-24 Thread Aaron Lu
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:45:36AM -0700, Daniel Jordan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:36:07PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > > Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make > > multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the > > list and list_add() at head

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-24 Thread Aaron Lu
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:45:36AM -0700, Daniel Jordan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:36:07PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > > Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make > > multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the > > list and list_add() at head

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-21 Thread Daniel Jordan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:36:07PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make > multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the > list and list_add() at head position of the list without taking a lock > in this year's MM

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-21 Thread Daniel Jordan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 01:36:07PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote: > Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make > multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the > list and list_add() at head position of the list without taking a lock > in this year's MM

[RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-10 Thread Aaron Lu
Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the list and list_add() at head position of the list without taking a lock in this year's MM summit[0]. People think this technique may be useful to improve zone lock

[RFC PATCH 0/9] Improve zone lock scalability using Daniel Jordan's list work

2018-09-10 Thread Aaron Lu
Daniel Jordan and others proposed an innovative technique to make multiple threads concurrently use list_del() at any position of the list and list_add() at head position of the list without taking a lock in this year's MM summit[0]. People think this technique may be useful to improve zone lock