Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932450AbVJaOIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:08:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751244AbVJaOIQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:08:16 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:55219 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbVJaOIQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:08:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:08:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@tv-sign.ru, dipankar@in.ibm.com, suzannew@cs.pdx.edu, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixes for RCU handling of task_struct Message-ID: <20051031140825.GA5933@elte.hu> References: <20051031020535.GA46@us.ibm.com> <20051031140459.GA5664@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051031140459.GA5664@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 19 * Ingo Molnar wrote: > RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of > tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP > and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU. this should read: RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU. Ingo - 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/