Re: [RFC] time: xtime_lock is held too long

Andi Kleen
2011-05-06T17:50:54Z

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:42:47PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 18:59 +0200, Andi Kleen a écrit :
>
> > If you have a better way to make it faster please share it.
>
> Ideally we could use RCU :)

Hmm, I didn't think my case had a lot of loops in the seqlock -- just
expensive cache misses -- but I should double check.

For the lots of loop case we probably need to understand first why you
iterate that often.

-Andi