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SubjectRe: [RFC patch] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier (v9)
Nick Piggin wrote:

> When writing multiprocessor scalable software, threads should often be
> avoided. They share so much state that it is easy to run into
> scalability issues in the kernel. So yes it would be really nice to
> have userspace RCU available in a process-shared mode.

A bit off topic, but I'm interested in what you feel some of these
scalability issues are. Is it mostly bouncing this shared context from
one CPU to the next and the related cache effects, or is there something
more you are referring to?

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Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team


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