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Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] timekeeping: Decouple xtime_lock from xtime seqcount
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Le dimanche 13 novembre 2011 à 23:19 +0000, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
> xtime_lock which serializes the update of time relevant data
> structures is held over a large code pathes which results in extended
> seqlock contention times on the reader side. This series decouples the
> lock from the seqcount and reduces the seqcount protected sections to
> those which actually update the reader visible data.
> 
> Thanks,

Thanks a lot Thomas, I'll take a look on this serie ASAP.