From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: maxk@qualcomm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:53:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030111050918.C06212C2DE@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2003 03:16:30 -0800." <200301101116.DAA03752@baldur.yggdrasil.com>
In message <200301101116.DAA03752@baldur.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> I wrote:
> >On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> >>We have to be able to call try_module_get() from interrupt context.
>
> > Where? Why? Please show me one or more examples.
>
> Come to think of it, I don't think you even have to answer
> that question. You should be able to use my try_module_get() from
> interrupt context. It never blocks.
Yes, your try_module_get just gets spurious failures on SMP, as well
as thrashing the cacheline (why bother with one counter per CPU
then?).
I guess I just don't understand your solution?
Sorry,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-11 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 11:16 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-11 3:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2003-01-10 12:18 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 9:38 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 9:10 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 9:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-10 10:15 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-11 14:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-10 10:11 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-07 8:53 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-09 20:41 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-07 2:19 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-08 11:46 ` Rusty Russell
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