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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	npiggin@suse.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask()
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:26:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489FBF6A.40402@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808101624.15112.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Nice debugging work.
>
> I'd suggest something like the attached (untested) patch as the simple
> fix for now.
>
> I expect the benefits from the less synchronized, multiple-in-flight-data
> global queue will still outweigh the costs of dynamic allocations. But
> if worst comes to worst then we just go back to a globally synchronous
> one-at-a-time implementation, but that would be pretty sad!
>   

What if we went the other way and strictly used queue-per-cpu?  It means 
multicast would require multiple enqueueing operations, which is a bit 
heavy, but it does make dequeuing and lifetime management very simple...

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-08 19:37 [PATCH] stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask() Venki Pallipadi
2008-08-09  0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-09  2:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-10  6:24 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-11  3:49   ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-11 13:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-11  4:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-08-11  4:34     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-11 18:18       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-11  4:49     ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-11 18:27       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-21 20:50   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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