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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linux-rt <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Tim Chavez <tinytim@us.ibm.com>,
	Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>,
	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 18:27:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216974440.11188.100.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216972177.7257.351.camel@twins>

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.

Cheers,
Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ 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 [this message]
2008-07-25  8:36           ` Sebastien Dugue
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

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