Thread (115 messages) 115 messages, 7 authors, 2010-08-04

Re: [PATCH UPDATED 1/3] vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2010-07-26 15:57:31
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:46:30PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
On 07/26/2010 05:34 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
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Hello,

On 07/26/2010 05:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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BTW, kthread_worker would benefit from the optimization I implemented
here as well.
Hmmm... I'm not quite sure whether it's an optimization.  I thought
the patch was due to feeling uncomfortable about using barriers?  Is
it an optimization?
Yeah, one less smp_mb() in execution path.  The lock dancing in
flush() is ugly but then again mucking with barriers could be harder
to understand.  Care to send a patch against wq#for-next tree?

Thanks.
Sure. Where's that, exactly?
-- 
tejun
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