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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@bakeyournoodle.com,
	paulus@samba.org, dino@in.ibm.com, tytso@us.ibm.com,
	dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, antonb@us.ibm.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] improved hacks to allow -rt to run kernbench on POWER
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:59:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194951545.6983.26.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194948338.6983.20.camel@twins>


On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:05 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Anyway, it seems its the generic irq stuff that uses raw_spinlock_t and
> disables IRQs, so there isn't much we can do from the ARCH level I'm
> afraid :-(
> 
> Ingo, any sane ideas?

Ok benh came up with a workable idea, he just needs a night's sleep to
come up with the details :-)

The idea is to fill the radix tree from host->ops->map() (or
irq_create_mapping()) as that should still be preemptable, and then
convert all other uses to RCU lookups.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09 18:10 [PATCH, RFC] improved hacks to allow -rt to run kernbench on POWER Paul E. McKenney
2007-11-09 20:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-09 22:07   ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-11-11  3:59     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-11 14:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-11-11 20:48         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-12 17:05           ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-11-12 19:15           ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-11-12 21:12             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-13  9:10               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-13  9:43                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-13 10:05                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-13 10:59                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-11-13 11:09                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-10  1:18   ` Nick Piggin

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