Re: [parisc-linux] rmap: parisc __flush_dcache_page

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:42:45PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> But I've an fairly optimal solution for you, you should make it a
> read_write spinlock, with the readers not disabling interrupts, and the
> writer disabling interrupts, the writer of the prio-tree will not take a
> timeslice, the readers instead will take a timeslice, but since they're
> readers and you've only to read in the flush_dcache_page irq context,
> you don't need to disable irqs for the readers.  I don't have better
> solutions than this one at the moment (yeah there's the rcu reading of
> the prio-tree but I'd leave it for later...)

FWIW, agreed.  Past attempts at RCU-based tree algorithms have been
a bit on the complex side.  While I believe that simpler versions are
possible, RCU-based trees should be approached with caution and with
long lead times.

						Thanx, Paul