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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] improved hacks to allow -rt to run kernbench on POWER
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On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:05 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Looking at the code:
>
> /* radix tree not lockless safe ! we use a brlock-type mecanism
> * for now, until we can use a lockless radix tree
> */
> static void irq_radix_wrlock(unsigned long *flags)
>
> The RCU radix tree stuffs have gone upstream long ago.
>
> Anyway, it seems its the generic irq stuff that uses raw_spinlock_t
> and
> disables IRQs, so there isn't much we can do from the ARCH level I'm
> afraid :-(
>
> Ingo, any sane ideas?

As discussed on IRC< there are a couple of other related issues, though
part of them go away if I can get rid of the brlock I have in there
thanks to the new RCU based radix tree.

I'll give that some thoughts and come back to you tomorrow or thursday
hopefully with a patch.

Cheers,
Ben.


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