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Subject: Re: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
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On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 10:25 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 
> If this is of interest, I keep a list tracking global IPI and global
> task schedulers sources in the core kernel here:
> https://github.com/gby/linux/wiki. 

You can add synchronize_.*_expedited() to the list, it does its best to
bash the entire machine in order to try and make RCU grace periods
happen fast.