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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Paul.McKenney@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:09:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150844989.1901.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620153555.0bd61e7b.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> So given those complexities, and the lack of a _user_ of
> radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch, it doesn't look like 2.6.18 stuff
> at this time.

So what should I do ? leave the bug in ppc64 or kill it's scalability
when taking interrupts ? You have one user already, me. From what Nick
says, the patch has been beaten up pretty heavily and seems stable....

Ben.



WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Paul.McKenney@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:09:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150844989.1901.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620153555.0bd61e7b.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> So given those complexities, and the lack of a _user_ of
> radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch, it doesn't look like 2.6.18 stuff
> at this time.

So what should I do ? leave the bug in ppc64 or kill it's scalability
when taking interrupts ? You have one user already, me. From what Nick
says, the patch has been beaten up pretty heavily and seems stable....

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-20 14:48 [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48 ` [patch 1/3] radix-tree: direct data Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48 ` [patch 2/3] radix-tree: small Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48 ` [patch 3/3] radix-tree: RCU lockless readside Nick Piggin
2006-06-20 14:48   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22  1:49   ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-22  1:49     ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-22 15:45     ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 15:45       ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 16:30       ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-22 16:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-22 16:55         ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 17:40           ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-22 18:11             ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 18:11               ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-23  7:09               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23  7:09                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23  8:03                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-23  8:03                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-23  8:39                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-23  8:39                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-23  8:41                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 18:23             ` Userspace RCU+rtth hack (was Re: [patch 3/3] radix-tree: RCU lockless readside) Nick Piggin
2006-06-22 20:25               ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-06-24 10:20                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-24 15:55                   ` Joe Seigh
2006-06-20 22:08 ` [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-20 22:08   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-20 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 22:35   ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 23:09   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-06-20 23:09     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-20 23:30     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 23:30       ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20 23:50       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-20 23:50         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  0:34         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-21  0:34           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-21  0:47           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  0:47             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  1:07             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-21  1:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-21  1:33               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  1:33                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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