From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: only increase the upper bit for srcu_read_lock()
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:39:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329946755.25686.120.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120222212630.GA6759@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 13:26 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Make that without underflow -- one increment and 2^31+1 decrements would
> in fact return the counter to its original value, but that would require
> cramming more than two billion tasks into a 32-bit address space, which
> I believe to be sufficiently unlikely. (Famous last words...)
I'll just expect to see you as President of the United States, counting
your money you won in the lottery, and being awarded a Nobel Prize for
curing cancer.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-13 2:09 [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu] rcu: direct algorithmic SRCU implementation Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-15 12:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 6:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-16 10:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-16 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 11:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-15 14:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-15 14:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-16 6:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-16 11:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-16 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 12:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-16 12:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 14:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-02-16 14:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 15:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-20 7:15 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-20 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-21 1:11 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-21 1:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-21 8:44 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-21 17:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-22 9:29 ` [PATCH 1/3 RFC paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: Remove fast check path Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-22 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/3 RFC paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: only increase the upper bit for srcu_read_lock() Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-22 9:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-22 21:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-22 21:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-22 21:39 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-02-23 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-22 9:29 ` [PATCH 3/3 RFC paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: flip only once for every grace period Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-23 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-24 8:06 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-24 20:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-27 8:01 ` [PATCH 1/2 RFC] srcu: change the comments of the wait algorithm Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-27 8:01 ` [PATCH 2/2 RFC] srcu: implement Peter's checking algorithm Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-27 18:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-28 1:51 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-28 13:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-29 10:07 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-02-29 13:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-01 2:31 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-01 13:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-10 3:41 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 8:42 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6 paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: implement call_srcu() Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] remove unused srcu_barrier() Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] Don't touch the snap in srcu_readers_active() Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-08 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] use "int trycount" instead of "bool expedited" Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-08 19:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] remove flip_idx_and_wait() Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 10:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-07 3:54 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5 single-thread-version] implement per-domain single-thread state machine call_srcu() Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-08 13:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 14:17 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-08 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 20:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-10 3:16 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-12 18:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-14 7:47 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-04-10 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] implement per-cpu&per-domain " Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 10:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 19:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 15:17 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 15:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 19:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-10 10:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-12 17:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 15:12 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 15:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 19:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-10 3:32 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-10 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-12 17:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-12 17:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-12 18:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-12 20:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-12 23:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-12 23:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-12 23:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-06 15:26 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 15:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 11:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 11:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 11:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 11:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 14:50 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 11:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 14:44 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 15:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-06 15:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-07 6:44 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-07 8:10 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2012-03-07 9:21 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 14:47 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-06 9:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] add srcu torture test Lai Jiangshan
2012-03-08 19:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] remove unused srcu_barrier() Paul E. McKenney
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