Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762165AbYCDOoc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:44:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755180AbYCDOoY (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:44:24 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:45087 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754051AbYCDOoX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:44:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:44:06 -0600 From: Jack Steiner To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, general@lists.openfabrics.org, Steve Wise , Roland Dreier , Kanoj Sarcar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 Message-ID: <20080304144406.GA25467@sgi.com> References: <20080302155457.GK8091@v2.random> <20080303032934.GA3301@wotan.suse.de> <20080303125152.GS8091@v2.random> <20080303131017.GC13138@wotan.suse.de> <20080303151859.GA19374@sgi.com> <20080303165910.GA23998@wotan.suse.de> <20080303180605.GA3552@sgi.com> <20080303184517.GA4951@wotan.suse.de> <20080303191540.GB11156@sgi.com> <1204626932.6241.41.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1204626932.6241.41.camel@lappy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 18 On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:35:32AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:15 -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: > > > I haven't thought about locking requirements for the radix tree. Most accesses > > would be read-only & updates infrequent. Any chance of an RCU-based radix > > implementation? Otherwise, don't we add the potential for hot locks/cachelines > > for threaded applications ??? > > The current radix tree implementation in the kernel is RCU capable. We > just don't have many RCU users yet. Ahhh. You are right. I thought I looked but obviously missed it. -- 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/