On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 09:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:00:15AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > I believe this was originally done by Dipankar Sarma. I pulled these > > > changes from the -rt kernel. > > > > > > For better preformance, RCU should use a softirq instead of a > > > tasklet. > > > > I was under the imporession we had merged this a while ago due to > > tasklet bottlenecks on big machines. Any reason why it has been > > delayed so long? > > i thought so too, up until a few weeks ago. I think i might have mixed > it up mentally with the scheduler rebalancing tasklet: that was > converted to softirqs on my request and made me forget about the RCU > tasklet thing. >
I think the reason it was dropped was because it was part of a large patch series that didn't make it into the kernel. And unfortunately, this was dropped in that regard. If you do pull this patch in, I would like to get a sign-off-by from Dipankar and give him credit, since I think he was the original author. I just pulled it out of the -rt branch. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
