So, given the fact that the userspace RCU library does now see
some real-world use, is it now time for Mathieu to resubmit his
sys_membarrier() patch?
I'm using userspace RCU with success in financial software, so the LTTng project
isn't the only user. It works well, but it's not as fast as I'
On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 14:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> Are there any architectures left that use hardware-assisted global
> TLB invalidation?
ARM and PowerPC at least...
Cheers,
Ben.
> On such an architecture, you might not get a memory
> barrier except on the CPU executing the mprote
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> > > "LKML" , "Paul E.
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> > > , "Ingo Molnar" ,
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> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:47:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: Alternative to signals/sys_membarrier() in liburcu
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> Subject: Re: Alternative to signals/sys_membarrier() in liburcu
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> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:56:00 + (UTC)
> Mathieu Desnoyers
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:56:00 + (UTC)
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> (sorry for re-send, my mail client tricked me into posting HTML
> to lkml)
>
> Hi,
>
> Michael Sullivan proposed a clever hack abusing mprotect() to
> perform the same effect as sys_membarrier() I submitted a few
> years ago
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> "Thomas Gleixner" , "Steven Rostedt"
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:47:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Alternative to signals/sys_membarrier() in liburcu
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> wrote:
> >
> > So the question as it stan
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
wrote:
>
> So the question as it stands appears to be: would you be comfortable
> having users abuse mprotect(), relying on its side-effect of issuing
> a smp_mb() on each targeted CPU for the TLB shootdown, as
> an effective implementation of pro
gt; Thanks!
>
> Mathieu
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Michael Sullivan"
> To: "Mathieu Desnoyers"
> Cc: lttng-...@lists.lttng.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:04:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Alternative to signals/sys_membarrier() in
implementation of process-wide memory barrier ?
Thoughts ?
Thanks!
Mathieu
From: "Michael Sullivan"
To: "Mathieu Desnoyers"
Cc: lttng-...@lists.lttng.org
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:04:07 PM
Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] Alternative to signals/sys_membarrier()
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