Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269168AbUIBWRI (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:17:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269177AbUIBWPV (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:15:21 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:42726 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269147AbUIBVW2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:22:28 -0400 Message-ID: <41378EB9.2060508@colorfullife.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:20:57 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim.houston@comcast.net CC: paulmck@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dipankar Sarma , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , Jack Steiner , Jesse Barnes , rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation References: <20040830004322.GA2060@us.ibm.com> <1093886020.984.238.camel@new.localdomain> <20040830185223.GF1243@us.ibm.com> <1093922569.1003.159.camel@new.localdomain> <20040901035350.GH1241@us.ibm.com> <1094043719.986.51.camel@new.localdomain> <20040902163854.GC1258@us.ibm.com> <1094151272.985.103.camel@new.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1094151272.985.103.camel@new.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 26 Jim Houston wrote: >We add the following /proc files: > >/proc/shield/irqs > Setting a bit limits the corresponding cpu to only handle > interrupts which are explicitly directed to that cpu. > >/proc/shield/ltmrs > Setting a bit limits the use of local timers on the > corresponding cpu. > > > How do you handle schedule_delayed_work_on()? slab uses it to drain the per-cpu caches. It's not fatal if a cpu doesn't drain it's caches (just some wasted memory), but it should be documented. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/