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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 08:58:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150302165811.GP15405@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150302092440.GF5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Whew!
> > 
> > Though otherwise whatever you were doing would have been pretty cool
> > and fun to learn about.  ;-)
> 
> So I think I can do that; where readers and writers are fully separated,
> but it requires:
> 
>  - tripple latch
>  - copy operator
>  - nested RCU
> 
> And the result would be horribly expensive (mostly due to the copy
> operator on dynamic data structures) on the update side, which severely
> limits the applicability of the scheme.

True enough, if you have a single pointer to an RCU-protected data
structure, you can update anything in any way by doing a deep copy of
the original, updating, and swapping pointers.  And what is a little
copy overhead among friends?  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-21  1:38 [PATCH 1/3] x86: Move msr accesses out of line Andi Kleen
2015-02-21  1:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Add trace point for MSR accesses Andi Kleen
2015-02-21  1:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf, x86: Remove old MSR perf tracing code Andi Kleen
2015-02-23 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Move msr accesses out of line Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-23 17:43   ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-25 12:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-25 18:20       ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-25 18:34         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-26 11:43     ` [RFC][PATCH] module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 12:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-26 14:12       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-27 11:51         ` Rusty Russell
2015-02-26 16:02       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-26 16:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 16:55           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-26 17:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 18:28           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-26 19:06             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-26 19:13             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 19:41               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-26 19:45                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 22:32                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-26 20:52                 ` Andi Kleen
2015-02-26 22:36                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-27 10:01                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-28 23:30                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-28 16:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-28 16:56                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-28 23:32                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-03-02  9:24                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-02 16:58                       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-02-27 12:02       ` Rusty Russell
2015-02-27 14:30         ` Peter Zijlstra

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