Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] Convert the RCU tasklet into a softirq |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I believe this was originally done by Dipankar Sarma. I pulled these > > changes from the -rt kernel. > > > > For better preformance, RCU should use a softirq instead of a > > tasklet. > > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Tested with both kernbench and rcutorture on i386, x86_64, and ppc64.
Btw, are there any numbers on this? Is this whole thing actually noticeable?
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