Re: [PATCH] rcu: Eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 23:55 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: 
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 04:07:34AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > > So which code do you think deserves the big lump of coal?  ;-)
> > 
> > Sebastian's NO_HZ_FULL locking fixes.  Locking is hard, and rt sure
> > doesn't make it any easier, so lets give him a cookie or three to nibble
> > on while he ponders that trylock stuff again instead :)
> 
> Fair enough.  Does Sebastian prefer milk and cookies or the other
> tradition of beer and a cigar?  ;-)

Having sufficiently recovered from turkey overdose to be able to slither
upstairs (bump bump bump) to check on the box, commenting..

# timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch
# rtmutex-use-a-trylock-for-waiter-lock-in-trylock.patch

..those two out does seem to have stabilized the thing.

Merry Christmasss,

-Mike

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/