Re: [PATCH 0/5] ipc/msg: Sender/receiver optimizations

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Aug 09 2016 - 14:31:31 EST


On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:44:26 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 06:44:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:33:34PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm resending Sebastian's sysv msg queue use of wake_qs but updated
> > > to the last observations I need wrt the need of explicit barriers
> > > after removing the whole receiver busy-looping. After some irc exchange
> > > it seems we're both on the same page, and things now look like he had
> > > them earlier, in v2. This is all patch 1.
> > >
> > > The rest of the patches are changes I noticed while reviewing patch 1,
> > > which are mainly sender-side rework/optimizations. Details are in each
> > > changelog.
> > >
> > > The changes have survived ltp (which has some nasty corner cases for msgsnd
> > > changes), as well as pmsg-shared benchmark.
> >
> > Not really my area, but over all the patches look good.
> >
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> Andrew, will you pick these up, or should I route then through
> tip/locking or something?

I'll be processing these later today/tomorrow.