Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] mce: Stop using array-index-based RCU primitives

2015-05-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:31:57PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:18:41PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > > > Because mce is arch-specific x86 code, there is little or no > > performance benefit of using rcu_dereference_index_check() ove

Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] mce: Stop using array-index-based RCU primitives

2015-05-13 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:18:41PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > Because mce is arch-specific x86 code, there is little or no > performance benefit of using rcu_dereference_index_check() over using > smp_load_acquire(). It also turns out that mce is the only place