From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: A question on RCU vs. preempt-RCU
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:51:13 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obb4ngdy.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617182023.GH32663@mtj.dyndns.org>
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
> Buth yeah, interesting trick. We'll be doing IPIs, flushing TLB and
> taking faults until it hits zero. It'll all depend on the frequency
> of preemption but given that branches don't tend to be too expensive
> on modern processors, maybe it'd be a bit too hairy for possibly
> marginal gain?
Yeah, I'm not convinced either, but I am hoping some enthusiast will run
with the idea in hope of Fame and Glory :)
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 2:36 A question on RCU vs. preempt-RCU Tejun Heo
2013-06-16 6:46 ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-17 18:20 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-18 5:21 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-06-20 3:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-16 14:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-16 21:40 ` Tejun Heo
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