Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: remove false sharing in poke_int3_handler()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 24 2025 - 04:02:29 EST



* Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do you have a specific case in mind that I can test on these big
> platforms ?

No. I was thinking of large-scale kprobes or ftrace patching - but you
are right that the text_mutex should naturally serialize all the
write-side code here.

Mind adding your second round of test results to the changelog as well,
which improved per call overhead from 36 to 28 nsecs?

Thanks,

Ingo