On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:32:59PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 08:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Some researchers at MIT RCU-ified this lock: > > > > http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/clements-bonsai.pdf > > Ah, as have I [1].. and they seem to have gotten about as far as I have, > which means almost there but not quite [2] :-) I had forgotten about that -- that was the first call for call_srcu(), if I remember correctly. > The most interesting case is file maps and they simply ignored those. > While I appreciate that from an academic pov, -- they can still write a > paper on the other interesting bits -- I don't really like it from a > practical point. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/4/257 > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/4/532 Hmmm... Do the recent dcache changes cover some of the things that Linus called out? Probably not, but some at least. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
