From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.de>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
okir@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable remote RCU callback processing on SMP systems
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:23:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602221523.23739.mason@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060206145137.GA30059@sgi.com>
On Monday 06 February 2006 09:51, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> Reposting this patch that I'd submitted back on 1/26. Any thoughts on
> the basic approach in addition to the code itself? Is it possible to
> get this applied? Note that this should have negligible effect on
> those not configuring remote rcu callback processing.
Aside from the possible race we talked about in __rcu_process_callbacks, I
don't have huge objections here. But if the underlying problem is the cost
of kmem_cache_free, would it be better to limit that instead of trying to
push the latency around to specific cpus?
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 14:51 [PATCH] Enable remote RCU callback processing on SMP systems Dimitri Sivanich
2006-02-22 20:23 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2006-02-22 22:00 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2006-02-22 23:56 ` Chris Mason
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2006-01-26 20:38 Dimitri Sivanich
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