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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, oleg <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Makes procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:37:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090806153756.GC6747@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249572286.32113.527.camel@twins>

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:19 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 
> > > So yes, putting a rwsem in there sounds fine, you're already bouncing
> > > it.
> > 
> > If the critical section is small, is an rwsem really better than a
> > straight mutex?
> 
> Well, my understanding was that it needed to surround much, if not all,
> of clone(). That's a rather large bit of code.

That would indeed justify an rwsem!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-06 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  1:51 [PATCH v2 0/6] CGroups: cgroup memberlist enhancement+fix Ben Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 1/6] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids Ben Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 2/6] Ensures correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces Ben Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large Ben Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 4/6] Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU Ben Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 5/6] Lets ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time Ben Blum
2009-08-03  2:22   ` Li Zefan
2009-08-04  0:35     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-31  1:51 ` [PATCH 6/6] Makes procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once Ben Blum
2009-08-03  3:00   ` Li Zefan
2009-08-04  0:56     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-04  1:05       ` Paul Menage
2009-08-04  1:11         ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-04  1:09       ` Li Zefan
2009-08-04  1:19         ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-04  1:45           ` Li Zefan
2009-08-04  1:55             ` Paul Menage
2009-08-03 17:54   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-03 18:07     ` Paul Menage
2009-08-03 18:13     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-03 18:55       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-03 19:45         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-03 19:55           ` Paul Menage
2009-08-04 14:01             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 21:40             ` Matt Helsley
2009-08-04 18:48           ` Paul Menage
2009-08-04 19:01             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-08-04 19:14             ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-04 19:28               ` Paul Menage
2009-08-05 10:20                 ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-05 16:11                   ` Paul Menage
2009-08-05 16:42                     ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-05 16:53                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06  0:01                       ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-06  9:58                         ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-06 10:04                           ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-06 10:28                           ` Paul Menage
2009-08-06 10:34                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 10:42                               ` Paul Menage
2009-08-06 11:02                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 11:24                                   ` Paul Menage
2009-08-06 11:39                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 15:19                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-06 15:24                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 15:37                                           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-08-06 11:24                             ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-06 11:40                               ` Paul Menage
2009-08-06 14:54                                 ` Louis Rilling
2009-08-08  1:41                                 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-08  1:51                                   ` Benjamin Blum

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