On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:36 +0200, Sebastien Dugue wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:27:20 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:49 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > > The only advantage of the concurrent radix tree over this model is that > > > it can potentially do multiple modification operations at the same time. > > > > Yup, we do not need that for the irq revmap... concurrent lookup is all we > > need. > > > > Shouldn't we care about concurrent insertion and deletion in the tree? I > agree > that concern might be a bit artificial but in theory that can happen.
Yes, we just need to protect it with a big hammer, like a spinlock, it's not a performance critical code path. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
