Re: [RFC][PATCH] module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 03:32:03PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Whew!
> > 
> > Though otherwise whatever you were doing would have been pretty cool
> > and fun to learn about.  ;-)
> 
> So I think I can do that; where readers and writers are fully separated,
> but it requires:
> 
>  - tripple latch
>  - copy operator
>  - nested RCU
> 
> And the result would be horribly expensive (mostly due to the copy
> operator on dynamic data structures) on the update side, which severely
> limits the applicability of the scheme.

True enough, if you have a single pointer to an RCU-protected data
structure, you can update anything in any way by doing a deep copy of
the original, updating, and swapping pointers.  And what is a little
copy overhead among friends?  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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