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From: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation
Date: 02 Sep 2004 21:19:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094174357.985.169.camel@new.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41378EB9.2060508@colorfullife.com>

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 17:20, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Jim Houston wrote:
> 
> >We add the following /proc files:
> >/proc/shield/ltmrs
> >	Setting a bit limits the use of local timers on the 
> >	corresponding cpu.
> >
> How do you handle schedule_delayed_work_on()?
> slab uses it to drain the per-cpu caches. It's not fatal if a cpu 
> doesn't drain it's caches (just some wasted memory), but it should be 
> documented.

Hi Manfred,

The timer shielding migrates most of the timers to non-shielded cpus
but does keep track of timers queued with add_timer_on().  These
are polled periodically from a non-shielded cpu, and an inter-processsor
interrupt is used to force the shielded cpu to handle their expiry.

Jim Houston - Concurrent Computer Corp.



      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m3brgwgi30.fsf@new.localdomain>
2004-08-30  0:43 ` [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-30 17:13   ` Jim Houston
2004-08-30 17:38     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-09-01  0:10       ` Jim Houston
2004-09-01  0:57         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-30 18:52     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-31  3:22       ` Jim Houston
2004-09-01  3:53         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-09-01 13:02           ` Jim Houston
2004-09-02 16:38             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-09-02 18:54               ` Jim Houston
2004-09-02 21:20                 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-09-03  1:19                   ` Jim Houston [this message]

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