Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] lightweight per-cpu locks / restartable sequences

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 13:26:36 EST


On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Chris Mason wrote:

> I think the topic is really interesting and we'll be able to get numbers
> from production workloads to help justify and compare different
> approaches.

Ok that would be important. I also think that the approach may be used
in kernel to reduce the overhead of CONFIG_PREEMPT and also to implement
fast versions of this_cpu_ops for non x86 architectures and maybe even
optimize the x86 variants if interrupts also can detect critical sections
and restart at defined points.



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