From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
davem@davemloft.net, dada1@cosmosbay.com, zbr@ioremap.net,
jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, jengelh@medozas.de, r000n@r000n.net,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] v1 expedited "big hammer" RCU grace periods
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:29:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090423182928.GF6877@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904230842571.3101@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:47:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm... I need to ask Jeff Chua what HZ he was running with. Because if
> > there was some read-side critical section soaking up 30 milliseconds,
> > all that hammering will do is slow things down...
>
> The original bug report comes from simply bootup:
>
> "I'm loading all the firewall rules during boot-up and this 6 secs
> slowness is really not very nice to wait for."
>
> IOW, the problematic case likely effectively has _nothing_ else going on.
> Sure, there might be some parallelism (the bootup scripts are getting
> better for that), but hopefully not 6 seconds worth, and not likely any
> complex critical sections.
Sounds good to me! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 5:25 [PATCH RFC] v1 expedited "big hammer" RCU grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-23 6:11 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-04-23 15:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-24 0:39 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-04-24 1:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-23 7:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-23 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-23 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-23 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-04-23 13:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-23 16:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
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