From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "liang yuanen" <linux.kernel.liang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why are we reduce spin-lock and replace it with lock-free?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:32:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510153241.2d5ac2cb@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76391b770705100723w24c93b99m48180a759d2116c7@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:32 +0800
"liang yuanen" <linux.kernel.liang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Three are many many spin-lock in the kernel code, and in multi-core
> conditions, it push down the kernel performance.why are we reduce
> spin-lock and replace it with lock-free?
If you can find algorithms which are lock free, faster than taking the
lock and have bounded resource consumption then you can test them with
the kernel and send patches.
Alan
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2007-05-10 14:23 liang yuanen
2007-05-10 14:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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