Re: [RFC&PATCH] Alternative RCU implementation

From: Manfred Spraul
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 21:57:24 EST


Jim Houston wrote:

We add the following /proc files:

/proc/shield/irqs
Setting a bit limits the corresponding cpu to only handle
interrupts which are explicitly directed to that cpu.

/proc/shield/ltmrs
Setting a bit limits the use of local timers on the corresponding cpu.



How do you handle schedule_delayed_work_on()?
slab uses it to drain the per-cpu caches. It's not fatal if a cpu doesn't drain it's caches (just some wasted memory), but it should be documented.

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Manfred
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