From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:16:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209181008570.1125-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209181358470.1519-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> That's about 18 times the timeout for the NMI oopser and will cause
> people real trouble.
Where did this NMI oopser argument come from? get_pid() doesn't even
disable interrupts. And we hold the read lock, and other interrupts aren't
allowed to take the write lock anyway. If the NMI oopser triggers, then
something else is going on than get_pid().
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-17 23:06 [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 0:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 1:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 2:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 14:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 12:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 16:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 18:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 19:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 20:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 20:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 21:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-19 3:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-19 13:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-21 12:56 ` quadratic behaviour Andries Brouwer
2002-09-21 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-21 17:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-21 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-21 17:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 14:49 ` [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 15:01 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 15:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 15:31 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 15:35 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 15:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 15:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 18:31 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 18:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 16:32 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 21:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-18 16:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-19 19:27 ` Martin Mares
2002-09-17 15:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-19 20:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-18 16:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2002-09-18 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:35 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 17:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 17:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-18 17:57 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 18:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-18 18:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 18:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:56 ` interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() and signals Imran Badr
2002-09-19 7:16 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-18 19:53 ` [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-22 0:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-22 10:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-22 15:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-18 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:58 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 18:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:00 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 18:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:33 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 16:55 ` Alan Cox
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