Damn, sorry for noise. I missed this part... On 12/10, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > On 12/10/2012 12:44 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > the latency. And I guess something like kick_all_cpus_sync() is "too heavy". > > I hadn't considered that. Thinking of it, I don't think it would help us.. > It won't get rid of the currently running preempt_disable() sections no?
Sure. But (again, this is only my feeling so far) given that get_online_cpus_atomic() does cli/sti, this can help to implement ensure-the-readers-must-see-the-pending-writer. IOW this might help to implement sync-with-readers. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
