From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, andi@firstfloor.org,
snakebyte@gmx.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com,
niv@us.ibm.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:05:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090105050529.GH496@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105043006.GA22049@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> The following patch properly updates the ->signaled field for the
> "small"-system case (no more than 32 CPUs for 32-bit kernels and no more
> than 64 CPUs for 64-bit kernels).
>
> I believe that this patch should be included for 2.6.29.
Yes, it's really needed. One of my test system takes forever to boot
without it when tree rcu is enabled.
Thanks Paul for the debugging work.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 4:30 [PATCH] Fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 5:05 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-01-05 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
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