From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mike Day <ncmike@ncultra.org>
Cc: rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
Paul Mckenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce RCU-enabled DQs (v2)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521BD554.4010806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGaKXu1V5Cz+9b=v=HEt2kn=2sJiD+ORm_9SyB7v35zNXWWUOw@mail.gmail.com>
Il 26/08/2013 23:48, Mike Day ha scritto:
>
>
> Mathieu - Thanks for the review! And thanks for the code, I'm working
> with it right now. I like the idea of using a flag to provide a form of
> atomicity for the doubly-linked list elements. I'm also planning on
> running some timing tests to see of the additional memory barriers and
> atomic accesses make *any* difference whatsoever.
We probably have already too many queue/list variations (a relic of the
BSD queue.h headers). Linux does not need RCU-friendly reverse
iteration at all, do we really need it? In other words, I think your v2
was really close to mergeable state...
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-26 22:23 UTC|newest]
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2013-08-25 19:18 ` [RFC PATCH] Introduce RCU-enabled DQs (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20130825191835.GA1073@Krystal>
2013-08-26 21:48 ` Mike Day
2013-08-26 22:23 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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