From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:08:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927090845.GB20395@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1d59hpy1j.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> About the rcu removal discussion I heard it was more the possibility
> was suggested because the downside was significant, and normal locks
> were more deterministic. The emphasis was that call_rcu could be a
> problem and that something needs to happen to fix that.
RCU is really mostly used as a garbage-collection scheme, and hence its
latency, while it can be practically problematic in some cases, never is
directly visible in terms of application or kernel behavior.
the same is in this case: the call_rcu() use is for gathering totally
unused task structs. There should be no side-effects.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-20 14:19 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 16:50 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 16:58 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 17:33 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:34 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 17:00 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 17:38 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 17:41 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 18:23 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:25 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 18:34 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 20:06 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-20 21:38 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 20:17 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:36 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Gene Heskett
2006-09-20 18:47 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 19:20 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 19:46 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:19 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-20 20:14 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:31 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-21 19:02 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 19:18 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-22 14:42 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Daniel Walker
2006-09-27 8:36 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 8:04 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Deepak Saxena
2006-09-21 8:04 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 8:24 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Deepak Saxena
2006-09-22 2:19 ` 2.6.18-rt1 john cooper
2006-09-22 6:36 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lennert Buytenhek
2006-09-22 11:56 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 13:10 ` 2.6.18-rt4 john cooper
2006-09-27 13:09 ` 2.6.18-rt4 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 18:56 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 19:49 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 20:33 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 20:41 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 20:50 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-21 19:16 ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-22 2:18 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-22 11:58 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-28 0:42 ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-28 22:48 ` 2.6.18-rt1 john stultz
2006-09-29 2:09 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-29 12:24 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-29 12:40 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-20 19:58 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-20 20:34 ` 2.6.18-rt1 K.R. Foley
2006-09-20 19:38 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mark Knecht
2006-09-20 20:27 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mark Knecht
2006-09-22 14:14 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-09-20 20:54 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-20 22:07 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-20 22:26 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Michal Piotrowski
2006-09-21 6:56 ` [PATCH] move put_task_struct() reaping into a thread [Re: 2.6.18-rt1] Bill Huey
2006-09-21 6:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:18 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 7:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:32 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 7:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:48 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 7:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 8:13 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 12:23 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-09-21 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:27 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:35 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-21 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-21 7:52 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27 2:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27 5:08 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27 6:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27 6:34 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27 7:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 13:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-27 14:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-09-27 9:08 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-09-27 9:09 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27 9:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 20:28 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-09-27 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-27 9:14 ` Bill Huey
2006-09-27 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-09-25 9:53 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Florian Schmidt
2006-09-26 7:57 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Florian Schmidt
2006-09-25 16:12 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Mike Kravetz
2006-09-27 8:34 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-09-30 18:06 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-09-30 18:18 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-09-30 18:25 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 21:18 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Karsten Wiese
2006-10-13 21:20 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 21:24 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-10-13 22:12 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-13 22:16 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Dipankar Sarma
2006-10-17 14:46 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Lee Revell
2006-10-18 8:34 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
2006-10-18 7:12 ` 2.6.18-rt1 Ingo Molnar
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