Re: [patch 0/7] timekeeping: Decouple xtime_lock from xtime seqcount

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Nov 14 2011 - 01:28:10 EST


Le dimanche 13 novembre 2011 Ã 23:19 +0000, Thomas Gleixner a Ãcrit :
> xtime_lock which serializes the update of time relevant data
> structures is held over a large code pathes which results in extended
> seqlock contention times on the reader side. This series decouples the
> lock from the seqcount and reduces the seqcount protected sections to
> those which actually update the reader visible data.
>
> Thanks,

Thanks a lot Thomas, I'll take a look on this serie ASAP.



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