Re: [RFC] dynticks: dynticks_idle is only modified locally use this_cpu ops

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> But yes, in theory, something like this can work if appropriate memory
> barriers are put in place.  In practice, this sort of change needs
> profound testing on multiple architectures.

Ok how can we move forward? I just looked further and it seems a similar
approach could perhaps work for the dynticks field.

If the first patch I send gets merged then a lot of other this_cpu related
optimizations become possible regardless of the ones in the RFC.


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