Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:44:06 -0600 | From | Jack Steiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 |
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:35:32AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > 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.
Ahhh. You are right. I thought I looked but obviously missed it.
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