Re: [PATCH v4] membarrier: expedited private command

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jul 31 2017 - 15:44:34 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Dave Watson wrote:
> On 07/28/17 04:40 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Implement MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED with IPIs using cpumask built
> > from all runqueues for which current thread's mm is the same as the
> > thread calling sys_membarrier. It executes faster than the non-expedited
> > variant (no blocking). It also works on NOHZ_FULL configurations.
>
> I tested this with our hazard pointer use case on x86_64, and it seems
> to work great. We don't currently have any uses needing SHARED.
>
> Tested-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx>

Applied, and thank you for testing this!

Thanx, Paul