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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:57:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351025831.13456.43.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121023192318.GA25872@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 21:23 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
>         static void mb_ipi(void *arg)
>         {
>                 smp_mb(); /* unneeded ? */
>         }
> 
>         static void force_mb_on_each_cpu(void)
>         {
>                 smp_mb();
>                 smp_call_function(mb_ipi, NULL, 1);
>         } 

You know we're spending an awful lot of time and effort to get rid of
such things, right? RT and HPC people absolutely hate these random IPI
things.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 19:09 [RFC PATCH 0/2] uprobes: register/unregister can race with fork Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-15 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] brw_mutex: big read-write mutex Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-15 23:28   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-16 15:56     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-16 18:58       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-17 16:37         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-17 22:28           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-16 19:56   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-17 16:59     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-17 22:44       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-18 16:24         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-18 16:38           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-18 17:57             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-18 19:28               ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-19 12:38                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-19 15:32                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-19 17:40                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-19 17:57                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-19 22:54                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-24  3:08                         ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-25 14:09                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-25 23:40                             ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-26 12:06                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-26 13:22                                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-26 14:12                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-26 15:23                                     ` mark_files_ro && sb_end_write Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-26 16:09                                     ` [PATCH 1/2] brw_mutex: big read-write mutex Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-19 17:49                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-22 23:09                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-23 15:12                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-19 19:28               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-22 23:36                 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix and improvements for percpu-rw-semaphores (was: brw_mutex: big read-write mutex) Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-22 23:37                   ` [PATCH 1/2] percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-22 23:39                     ` [PATCH 2/2] percpu-rw-semaphores: use rcu_read_lock_sched Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-24 16:16                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-24 17:18                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-24 18:20                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-24 18:43                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-24 19:43                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-25 14:54                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-25 15:07                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-25 16:15                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-23 16:59                     ` [PATCH 1/2] percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-23 18:05                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-23 18:27                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-23 18:41                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-23 20:29                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-23 20:32                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-23 21:39                               ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-24 16:23                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-24 20:22                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-24 20:36                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-24 20:44                                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-24 23:57                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-25 12:39                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-25 13:48                                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-23 19:23                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-23 20:45                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-23 20:57                         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-10-24 15:11                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-23 21:26                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-10-23 20:32                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-30 18:48                   ` [PATCH 0/2] fix and improvements for percpu-rw-semaphores (was: brw_mutex: big read-write mutex) Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-31 19:41                     ` [PATCH 0/1] percpu_rw_semaphore: reimplement to not block the readers unnecessarily Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-31 19:41                       ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-01 15:10                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-01 15:34                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-02 18:06                           ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-02 18:06                             ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-07 17:04                               ` [PATCH v3 " Mikulas Patocka
2012-11-07 17:47                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-07 19:17                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-11-08 13:42                                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-08  1:23                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-08  1:16                               ` [PATCH v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-08 13:33                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-08 16:27                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-08 13:48                             ` [PATCH RESEND v2 0/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-08 13:48                               ` [PATCH RESEND v2 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-08 20:07                                 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-08 21:08                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-08 23:41                                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-11-09  0:41                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-09  3:23                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-09 16:35                                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-09 16:59                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-09 12:47                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-11-09 15:46                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-09 17:01                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-09 18:10                                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-09 18:19                                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-10  0:55                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-11 15:45                                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-12 18:38                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-11 18:27                                   ` [PATCH -mm] percpu_rw_semaphore-reimplement-to-not-block-the-readers-unnecessari ly.fix Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-12 18:31                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-16 23:22                                     ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-18 19:32                                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-01 15:43                         ` [PATCH 1/1] percpu_rw_semaphore: reimplement to not block the readers unnecessarily Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-01 18:33                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-11-02 16:18                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-15 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] uprobes: Use brw_mutex to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race Oleg Nesterov
2012-10-18  7:03   ` Srikar Dronamraju

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