Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:54:32 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] implement per-cpu&per-domain state machine call_srcu() |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 11:58 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > But I guess I should ask... Peter, what do you expect the maximum > > call_srcu() rate to be in your use cases? If tens of thousands are > > possible, some adjustments will be needed. > > The one call-site I currently have is linked to vma lifetimes, so yeah, > I guess that that can be lots.
So the worst case would be if several processes with lots of VMAs were to exit at about the same time? If so, my guess is that call_srcu() needs to handle several thousand callbacks showing up within a few tens of microseconds. Is that a reasonable assumption, or am I missing an order of magnitude or two in either direction?
Thanx, Paul
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