Re: [RFC,PATCH] RCUify single-thread case of clock_gettime()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The attached patch uses RCU to avoid the need to acquire tasklist_lock 
> in the single-thread case of clock_gettime().  Still acquires 
> tasklist_lock when asking for the time of a (potentially 
> multithreaded) process.
> 
> Experimental, has been touch-tested on x86 and POWER.  Requires RCU on 
> task_struct.  Further more focused testing in progress.
> 
> Thoughts?  (Why?  Some off-list users want to be able to monitor CPU 
> consumption of specific threads.  They need to do so quite frequently, 
> so acquiring tasklist_lock is inappropriate.)

looks good to me - i have added this to the -rt tree, it should show up 
in 2.6.14-rt3.

	Ingo
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