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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.

  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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