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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Lock free fd lookup
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:50:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F8E868.7000008@colorfullife.com> (raw)

wli wrote

>> * It requires type stable storage.  That is, once a data area has been
>>   allocated to a particular structure type, it always contains that
>>   structure type, even when it has been freed from the list.  Each list
>>   requires its own free pool, which can never be returned to the OS.
>
>The last of these is particularly lethal.
>  
>
It might be possible to combine such a lock free algorithms with RCU and 
then set Hugh's SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU: It inserts a call_rcu between 
leaving the free pool and returning the page to the OS.

--
    Manfred

             reply	other threads:[~2004-07-17  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-17  8:50 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-07-17  9:30 ` [RFC] Lock free fd lookup William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-17 19:17 Albert Cahalan
2004-07-29  0:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14  4:53 [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14  4:56 ` [RFC] Lock free fd lookup Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14 15:17   ` Chris Wright
2004-07-15 14:22     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:10       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-15 16:22         ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:34         ` Chris Wright
2004-07-16  5:38           ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-16  6:27       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  0:55         ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  1:19           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:12             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  2:34               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:28             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  3:16               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17 13:48     ` Peter Zijlstra

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