Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 12:37:20 +0530 | | From | "Abhishek Sagar" <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] To improve kretprobe scalability | |
On 5/21/08, Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Solution:
> 1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances
> present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table. We will have two locks,
> one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another lock for kretporbe
> object.
Is it possible to get rid of the kretprobe hash table itself and lose
the kretprobe_lock? It seems like it is just doing a pid-to-instance
mapping. These return instances could be queued in the "current"
task_struct in a LIFO manner. Mutation to this per-task list can be
done with local irqs off...
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Regards,
Abhishek Sagar
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