From: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
darren@dvhart.com, sbw@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:07:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378786024.5486.78.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001410333127c-486c74ec-3209-4c5e-a92f-0c11e00fa141-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:49 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Its just that PREEMPT kernels are
> not in use and AFAICT the full preempt stuff requires significant developer
> support and complicates the code without much benefit.
The openSUSE desktop kernel is PREEMPT, and presumably has users.
I use VOLUNTARY for my desktop, having zero tight latency constraints,
and not being into inflicting needless pain on poor defenseless boxen,
but lots of folks do use PREEMPT, and some of them may even need it.
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 19:52 [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section? Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-05 20:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-05 20:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-05 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-05 23:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-06 10:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-06 15:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 15:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-06 16:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-06 16:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-06 16:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 17:00 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-06 17:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-06 17:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 17:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 18:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-07 0:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-07 1:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-09-08 1:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 10:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-06 17:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-09-06 17:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-06 18:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-06 20:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 10:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 12:13 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 12:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 12:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 12:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 13:08 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 13:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 13:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 13:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 13:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 14:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 15:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 15:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:03 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 16:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 13:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 13:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 14:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 17:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 17:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 17:29 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-09-09 17:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 18:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 21:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-09-09 21:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 22:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-11 14:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-11 14:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-11 15:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-11 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-11 16:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 13:29 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 13:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 13:49 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-09 13:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 17:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 13:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 13:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 14:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-09 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 15:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-09 15:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-09 16:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-10 21:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 6:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 14:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-10 21:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 6:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 14:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-09 16:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-10 4:07 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2013-09-09 13:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 14:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-09 16:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-09 16:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-09-09 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
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