| From | "Takashi Nishiie" <> | Subject | RE: [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:42 +0900 |
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Hi Mathieu
> Here is the complete patchset required to get basic Immediate Values > support ported to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1. It provides the "simple", non > nmi-safe version of immediate values, which means that immediate > values should not be used in code paths reachable by NMI or MCE > handlers. This version also uses > stop_machine_run() for immediate values updates, which is a very heavy > lock. In order to make incremental, easy to review, changes, I think > we could start by this "simple" version as a first step before we > switch to the nmi-safe version later.
I am interested in the performance improvement of "marker." It is important in arguing that it is "simple." I will help debug and testing.
Thanks
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