Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted

2012-09-01 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:18:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > RCU grace-period cleanup is currently carried out with interrupts > disabled, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems > (many hundreds or thousands of CPUs). This patch therefor

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted

2012-08-30 Thread Paul E. McKenney
From: "Paul E. McKenney" RCU grace-period cleanup is currently carried out with interrupts disabled, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems (many hundreds or thousands of CPUs). This patch therefore makes the RCU grace-period cleanup be preemptible, including voluntary pre