From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
tglx <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] reduce runqueue lock contention
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:11:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100622211141.GC21149@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277213586.1875.704.camel@laptop>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> So this one boots and builds a kernel on a dual-socket nehalem.
>
> there's still quite a number of XXXs to fix, but I don't think any of the
> races are crashing potential, mostly wrong accounting and scheduling iffies
> like.
>
> But give it a go.. see what it does for you (x86 only for now).
>
> Ingo, any comments other than, eew, scary? :-)
None, other than a question: which future kernel do you aim it for? I'd prefer
v2.6.50 or later ;-)
This is a truly scary patch.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-22 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 20:48 [PATCH RFC] reduce runqueue lock contention Chris Mason
2010-05-20 21:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-20 21:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-20 22:17 ` Chris Mason
2010-05-20 22:21 ` Chris Mason
2010-06-04 10:56 ` Stijn Devriendt
2010-06-04 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-05 9:37 ` Stijn Devriendt
2010-06-21 10:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-21 10:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-21 13:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-22 13:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-22 21:11 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-06-23 9:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 23:13 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-02 1:17 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-02 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-14 2:41 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-14 3:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-12-14 21:42 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-15 18:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
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