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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adurbin@google.com,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed a mismatch between the users of radix_tree and the implementation.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:42:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282034571.1926.2143.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimk_16nz2BWB42yHAAseaEJP-DBdondBO5oznrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 21:45 -0700, Salman Qazi wrote:
> But considering that the kernel locks up, and we are still talking
> about < 5MB after a kernel compile, should we really be all that
> concerned?  If so, what are the alternatives that should be considered
> for fixing this lock up? 

No bright ideas atm, but yeah, that indirect pointer vs rcu slot lookup
is funky. Lets go with your patch for now.

Maybe Nick has a bright idea?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-13  7:15 [PATCH] Fixed a mismatch between the users of radix_tree and the implementation Salman Qazi
2010-08-13  7:20 ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-16 11:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-16 18:30     ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-16 19:33       ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTindpUo5tPiXVp6wXjOAqczrJvYegrOMBqSjr4_t@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-16 21:05           ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-16 21:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-17  4:35             ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-17  4:45               ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-17  8:42                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-17 15:23       ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-17 15:48         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-17 19:49           ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-17 21:28         ` Salman Qazi
2010-08-30 23:27           ` Salman Qazi
2010-11-10 19:16             ` Salman Qazi
2010-11-11  0:29               ` Nick Piggin

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