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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs when reading across CPUs.
On Mon, Jun 16 2008, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:22:49 -0400
> Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Eduard,
>
> Hi.
>
> > Two objections against this. First, taking a spinlock _is_ slow in SMP
> > because it involves synchronized atomic operations.
>
> In any case, if we use relay in a hot path, we are doing debugging, so
> a couple of atomic operations won't be a big problem. Along with
> setting affinity, this shouldn't be a problem.

Ehm no, that is a completely false claim. Relay speed does matter, a
great deal. We rely heavily on eg blktrace being as ligt weight as
possible to capture millions of events in a very short time frame
without impacting performance too much. Relay is NOT just for debugging.

So I completely agree with Mathieu here, and I'm not a big fan of the
proposed solution.

--
Jens Axboe



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