From: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Tim Chavez <tinytim@us.ibm.com>,
Linux-rt <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>,
linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Gilles Carry <Gilles.Carry@ext.bull.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RT] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping radix tree lockless
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:36:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080725103601.2dbcd7e8@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216974440.11188.100.camel@pasglop>
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:27:20 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:49 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> >
> > The only advantage of the concurrent radix tree over this model is that
> > it can potentially do multiple modification operations at the same time.
>
> Yup, we do not need that for the irq revmap... concurrent lookup is all we need.
>
Shouldn't we care about concurrent insertion and deletion in the tree? I agree
that concern might be a bit artificial but in theory that can happen.
Sebastien.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 10:23 [PATCH 0/2][RT] powerpc - fix bug in irq reverse mapping radix tree (Resend) Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-24 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/2][RT] powerpc - XICS: move the call to irq_radix_revmap from xics_startup to xics_host_map Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-24 10:50 ` [PATCH 2/2][RT] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping radix tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-24 11:11 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-24 12:18 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-25 7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-25 8:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-25 8:36 ` Sebastien Dugue [this message]
2008-07-25 8:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-25 8:47 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-25 8:34 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-25 5:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-23 14:59 [PATCH 0/2][RT] powerpc - fix bug in irq reverse mapping radix tree Sebastien Dugue
2008-07-23 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/2][RT] powerpc - Make the irq reverse mapping radix tree lockless Sebastien Dugue
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