Re: [PATCH] Enable remote RCU callback processing on SMP systems

[Chris Mason]

On Monday 06 February 2006 09:51, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> Reposting this patch that I'd submitted back on 1/26.  Any thoughts on
> the basic approach in addition to the code itself?  Is it possible to
> get this applied?  Note that this should have negligible effect on
> those not configuring remote rcu callback processing.

Aside from the possible race we talked about in __rcu_process_callbacks, I 
don't have huge objections here.  But if the underlying problem is the cost 
of kmem_cache_free, would it be better to limit that instead of trying to 
push the latency around to specific cpus?

-chris
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