Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memorybarrier

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Well, if we just grab the task_rq(task)->lock here, then we should be
> OK? We would guarantee that curr is either the task we want or not.
> 

Hrm, I just tested it, and there seems to be a significant performance
penality involved with taking these locks for each CPU, even with just 8
cores. So if we can do without the locks, that would be preferred.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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