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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
	Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:01:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118220122.GH16285@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0601181656430.4974-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Sez who?  If it's not documented in the kernel source, I don't believe 
> it.

The notifier interface is supposed to be *light weight*.  Adding locks 
that get taken on every call basically changes the concept entirely.  The 
cache misses notifiers add are measurable overhead, with locks being far 
worse.

		-ben
-- 
"You know, I've seen some crystals do some pretty trippy shit, man."
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18 16:34 [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update Alan Stern
2006-01-18 18:19 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 20:23   ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 21:42     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 21:57       ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:00         ` David S. Miller
2006-01-18 22:04           ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 23:06           ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19  3:33             ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:01         ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-01-18 22:09           ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:15             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-19 10:01               ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-18 22:18             ` David S. Miller
2006-01-18 22:18               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 23:07       ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19  9:55       ` Jes Sorensen

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