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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@ezchip.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: crazy idea: big percpu lock (Re: task isolation)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:08:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151009090852.GJ17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrV5GPhtx0-g1gBtW-VF3CvW+J-dnRcTd=VTY37UeRerrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I want to propose a new primitive that might go a long way toward
> solving this issue.  The new primitive would be called the "big percpu
> lock".  

Never, ever, combine big and lock :-) You want small granular locks, big
locks are a guaranteed recipe for pain.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-09  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08 21:25 crazy idea: big percpu lock (Re: task isolation) Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-08 22:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-10-08 22:28   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-09 11:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2015-10-09  9:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-10-09  9:27   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-10-09 18:56     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-28 18:42 ` Chris Metcalf
2015-10-28 18:45   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-10 14:19     ` Rik van Riel

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