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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] rcusync: introduce struct rcu_sync_ops
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 19:21:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131005172118.GA18191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131004194251.GX15690@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 10/04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:38:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > As all the rcu_synchronization() methods (on non UP) are quite
> > > expensive, I doubt that this optimization is worth anything.
> >
> > Maybe. It just annoys me, because afaik, the function that gets called
> > is always static per callsite.
>
> Yes, very much so indeed. Worst is that we have no users of the regular
> RCU and RCU_BH variants and only included them for completeness since
> the general operation is just as valid for those.

And personally I think we should keep type/ops for completeness anyway,
even if we do not have RCU and RCU_BH users. But perhaps we can kill
RCU_SYNC and RCU_BH_SYNC enums/entries until we have a user.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04 18:46 [PATCH 0/5] rcusync: validations + dtor + exclusive Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 18:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] rcusync: introduce struct rcu_sync_ops Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 19:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-04 19:22     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 19:30     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-04 19:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-10-04 19:42         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-05 17:21           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-10-05 17:17         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-08  9:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 15:33             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-08 16:34               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-04 18:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] rcusync: add the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 18:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] rcusync: introduce rcu_sync_dtor() Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 18:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] rcusync: introduce rcu_sync_struct->exclusive mode Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 19:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-04 19:56     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 20:41       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-06 13:22         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-07 10:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-04 18:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] rcusync: make rcu_sync_enter() return "bool" Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-04 19:32 ` [PATCH 0/5] rcusync: validations + dtor + exclusive Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-04 21:28   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-05 17:22   ` Oleg Nesterov

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