On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote:
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> The first is serialization of all I/O reads and writes. This will
> be a severe problem on systems with large numbers of PCI buses, the
> very type of system that stands the most to gain in reliability from
> these efforts. At a minimum any locking should be done on a per-bus
> basis.
The lock could be per "error domain" - that would require some
arch specific support though to define the scope of the "error domain".
> The second is the raw performance penalty from acquiring and dropping
> a lock with every read and write. This will be a substantial amount
> of activity for any I/O-intensive system, heck even for moderate I/O
> levels.
Sorry - I think this is BS.
Please run mmio_test on your box and share the results.
mmio_test is available here:
svn co http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/mmio_test/
Then we can talk about the cost of spinlocks vs cost of MMIO access.
thanks,
grant
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