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SubjectRe: [tip:core/locking 2/3] lockdep:define preallocated "stack" for BFS as per cpu variable
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2009/7/22 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 20:58 +0800, tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
>
> This patch can use a changelog.
>
> Why is this needed, isn't all that serialized by the graph_lock anyway?
> Or are there a few paths where this isn't the case and we're now racy?

It is really serialized by the graph_lock, but we can prevent cpu cache from
being flushing by different cpu access, which seems that can be avoided by
per cpu variables. Right?

Thanks.

--
Lei Ming


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