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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
	Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	elsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
	CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:29:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8699.1137036592@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:39:10 MDT." <20060111213910.GA17986@sgi.com>

John Hesterberg (on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:39:10 -0600) wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:02:10PM -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
>> 	Have you looked at Alan Stern's notifier chain fix patch? Could that be
>> used in task_notify?
>
>I have two concerns about an all-tasks notification interface.
>First, we want this to scale, so don't want more global locks.
>One unique part of the task notify is that it doesn't use locks.

Neither does Alan Stern's atomic notifier chain.  Indeed it cannot use
locks, because the atomic notifier chains can be called from anywhere,
including non maskable interrupts.  The downside is that Alan's atomic
notifier chains require RCU.

An alternative patch that requires no locks and does not even require
RCU is in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113392370322545&w=2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-12  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-03 23:16 [Patch 0/6] Per-task delay accounting Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:23 ` [Patch 1/6] Delay accounting: timespec diff Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:26 ` [Patch 2/6] Delay accounting: Initialization, kernel boot option Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:28 ` [Patch 3/6] Delay accounting: Sync block I/O delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:30 ` [Patch 4/6] Delay accounting: Swap in delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:31 ` [Patch 5/6] Delay accounting: /proc interface Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:33 ` [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04  0:21   ` Greg KH
2006-01-04  0:42     ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04  0:51       ` Greg KH
2006-01-04  7:49         ` [Lse-tech] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 19:04   ` Jay Lan
2006-01-04 21:31     ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 22:40     ` [ckrm-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-04 23:17       ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-05 18:42         ` [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 19:17           ` [PATCH 01/01][RFC] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 19:20           ` [PATCH 00/01] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 23:10             ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-06  0:06               ` [ckrm-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-06  8:57                 ` [Lse-tech] " Jes Sorensen
2006-01-06 16:45                   ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-11 10:36                     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-11 12:56                       ` John Hesterberg
2006-01-11 13:50                         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-11 21:02                       ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-11 21:39                         ` John Hesterberg
2006-01-11 22:42                           ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 10:01                             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-12 23:20                               ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-13  9:35                                 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-14  7:23                                   ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12  3:29                           ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-01-12  5:04                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-12  5:38                               ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12  6:19                               ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12  6:51                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-12  7:50                                   ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 15:17                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-17 17:26                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-17 23:57                                         ` Keith Owens
2006-01-18  2:49                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-18  2:55                                             ` Lee Revell
2006-01-18  6:29                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-12  5:26                             ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12  5:45                               ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12  9:51                         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-12 23:01                           ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-13  9:59                             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-13 10:38                             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-13 23:22                               ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 23:49                       ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-05  0:01       ` [ckrm-tech] Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface Shailabh Nagar

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