> In fact, I was the one that identified this performance degradation issue,
> and reported to Adhemerval who kindly fixed it with
> f0458cf4f9ff3d870c43b624e6dccaaf657d5e83.
>
> Anyway, I think we are safe here.
FWIW Agreed. PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC should be persevered by this series.
Mikey
hi Florian,
On 11/06/2018 04:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Breno Leitao:
>
>> This patchset for the hardware transactional memory (TM) subsystem
>> aims to avoid spending a lot of time on TM suspended mode in kernel
>> space. It basically changes where the reclaim/recheckpoint will be
>> exe
* Breno Leitao:
> This patchset for the hardware transactional memory (TM) subsystem
> aims to avoid spending a lot of time on TM suspended mode in kernel
> space. It basically changes where the reclaim/recheckpoint will be
> executed.
I assumed that we want to abort on every system call these
This patchset for the hardware transactional memory (TM) subsystem
aims to avoid spending a lot of time on TM suspended mode in kernel
space. It basically changes where the reclaim/recheckpoint will be
executed.
The hardware is designed so once a CPU enters in transactional state it
uses a footp