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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Dave Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] TIMER_BH-less smptimers
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:21:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020520212109.GA5821@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020516185448.A8069@in.ibm.com> <20020520085500.GB14488@krispykreme>


On 2002.05.20 Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
>Hi Dipankar,
>
>> I have been experimenting with Ingo's smptimers and I ended up
>> extending it a little bit. I would really appreciate comments
>> on whether these things make sense or not.
>
>I tried it out and found that we were context switching like crazy.
>It seems we were always running the timers out of a tasklet because
>we never unlocked the net_bh_lock.
>

The patch for 2.4 in

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/scalable-timers-patches/

does not acquire net_bh_lock. Then I suppose it does not apply to that ?

So this patch is a little outdated wrt the one for 2.5. Is there any
updated version available for 2.4 ?
Can I try your patch for 2.5 on 2.4 or is there any infrastructure
missing ?

TIA

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-16 13:24 [RFC][PATCH] TIMER_BH-less smptimers Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-20  8:55 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-05-20 10:29   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-20 13:31     ` Anton Blanchard
2002-05-21  6:26       ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-20 12:38   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-20 21:21   ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-05-21  6:18     ` Dipankar Sarma

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