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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier (v3a)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:19:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263244757.4244.75.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111205250.GA6866@Krystal>

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 15:52 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> So the clear bit can occur far, far away in the future, we don't care.
> We'll just send extra IPIs when unneeded in this time-frame.

I think we should try harder not to disturb CPUs, particularly in the
face of RT tasks and DoS scenarios. Therefore I don't think we should
just wildly send to mm_cpumask(), but verify (although speculatively)
that the remote tasks' mm matches ours.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07  4:40 [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07  5:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07  5:39   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07  8:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 16:39     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07  5:28 ` Josh Triplett
2010-01-07  6:04   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07  6:32     ` Josh Triplett
2010-01-07 17:45       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 16:46     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07  5:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07  6:19   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07  6:35     ` Josh Triplett
2010-01-07  8:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 13:15         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 15:07         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 16:52         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 17:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 17:31             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 17:44               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 17:55                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 17:44               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 17:56                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 18:04                   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 18:40                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 17:36             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 14:27     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 15:10       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 16:49   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 17:00     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07  8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 18:30   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-01-07 18:39     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 18:59       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 19:16         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 19:40           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 20:58             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 21:35               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-07 22:34                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-08 22:28                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-08 23:53                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-09  0:20                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-09  1:02                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-09  1:21                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-09  1:22                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-09  2:38                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-09  5:42                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-09 19:20                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-09 23:05                               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-09 23:16                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10  0:03                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10  0:41                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10  1:14                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10  1:44                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10  2:12                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10  5:25                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10 11:50                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10 16:03                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10 16:21                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10 17:10                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10 21:02                                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-10 21:41                                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11  1:21                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10 17:45                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10 18:24                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11  1:17                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-11  4:25                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11  4:29                                                       ` [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier (v3a) Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 17:27                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-11 17:35                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 17:50                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-11 20:52                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 21:19                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-01-11 22:04                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 22:20                                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-11 22:48                                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-11 22:48                                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 21:19                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-11 21:31                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-11  4:30                                                       ` [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier (v3b) Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 22:43                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-12 15:38                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-12 16:27                                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-12 16:38                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-12 16:54                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-12 18:12                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-12 18:56                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-13  0:23                                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-11 16:25                                                       ` [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-11 20:21                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-11 21:48                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-14  2:56                                                             ` Lai Jiangshan
2010-01-14  5:13                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-14  5:39                                                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10  5:18                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10  1:12                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10  5:19                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10  1:04                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-10  1:01                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-09 23:59                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-10  1:11                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07  9:50 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-07 15:12   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 16:56   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 11:04 ` David Howells
2010-01-07 15:15   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-01-07 15:47     ` David Howells

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