Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:35:32 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:15 -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> I haven't thought about locking requirements for the radix tree. Most accesses > would be read-only & updates infrequent. Any chance of an RCU-based radix > implementation? Otherwise, don't we add the potential for hot locks/cachelines > for threaded applications ???
The current radix tree implementation in the kernel is RCU capable. We just don't have many RCU users yet.
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