Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memorybarrier

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 18:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Then we should have O(tasks) for spinlocks taken, and 
> O(min(tasks, CPUS)) for IPIs.
> 

And for nr tasks >> CPUS, this may help too:

> cpumask = 0;
> foreach task {

	if (cpumask == online_cpus)
		break;

> 	spin_lock(task_rq(task)->rq->lock);
> 	if (task_rq(task)->curr == task)
> 		cpu_set(task_cpu(task), cpumask);
> 	spin_unlock(task_rq(task)->rq->lock);
> }
> send_ipi(cpumask);
> 

-- Steve


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