From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:10:52 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma Subject: Re: 2.5.38-mm3 Message-ID: <20020926181052.C18906@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com References: <3D92BE07.B6CDFE54@digeo.com> <20020926175445.B18906@in.ibm.com> <20020926122909.GN3530@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020926122909.GN3530@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:29:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:29:09AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:54:45PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > Updated 2.5.38 RCU core and dcache_rcu patches are now available > > at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8875&release_id=112473 > > The differences since earlier versions are - > > rcu_ltimer - call_rcu() fixed for preemption and the earlier fix I had sent > > to you. > > read_barrier_depends - fixes list_for_each_rcu macro compilation error. > > dcache_rcu - uses list_add_rcu in d_rehash and list_for_each_rcu in d_lookup > > making the read_barrier_depends() fix I had sent to you > > earlier unnecessary. > > Is there an update to the files_struct stuff too? I'm seeing large > overheads there also. files_struct_rcu is not in mm kernels, but I will upload the most recent version to the same download directory in LSE. I would be interested in fget() profile count change with that patch. Thanks -- Dipankar Sarma http://lse.sourceforge.net Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/