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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: jim.houston@comcast.net
Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:20:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41378EB9.2060508@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094151272.985.103.camel@new.localdomain>

Jim Houston wrote:

>We add the following /proc files:
>
>/proc/shield/irqs
>	Setting a bit limits the corresponding cpu to only handle
>	interrupts which are explicitly directed to that cpu.
>
>/proc/shield/ltmrs
>	Setting a bit limits the use of local timers on the 
>	corresponding cpu.
>
>  
>
How do you handle schedule_delayed_work_on()?
slab uses it to drain the per-cpu caches. It's not fatal if a cpu 
doesn't drain it's caches (just some wasted memory), but it should be 
documented.

--
    Manfred

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m3brgwgi30.fsf@new.localdomain>
2004-08-30  0:43 ` [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-30 17:13   ` Jim Houston
2004-08-30 17:38     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-09-01  0:10       ` Jim Houston
2004-09-01  0:57         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-30 18:52     ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-08-31  3:22       ` Jim Houston
2004-09-01  3:53         ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-09-01 13:02           ` Jim Houston
2004-09-02 16:38             ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-09-02 18:54               ` Jim Houston
2004-09-02 21:20                 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-09-03  1:19                   ` Jim Houston

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