linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] Reduction globality of tasklist

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 12:19:02 +0300
From:	Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...n.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@...il.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] Reduction globality of tasklist_lock

Hi, Oleg,

26.05.2015, 22:44, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@...hat.com>:
> On 05/25, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>  It's like gone BKL,
>
> Yes...
>
> Kirill. I just want to let you know that I am not going to ignore
> this series. I'll try very much to review it this week.
>
> But I have to admit this scares me ;) and I don't feel this all
> is right. We will see.

Nice to hear. I'll wait for your commentaries.
A couple of words how this all was tested.

The strace test was endless kernel compilation using standard or
straced gcc/make (CC="strace -o /dev/null gcc" ) and periodical
killing gcc, make or strace. No problems were observed. If there
is an idea of a test, which is mostly for threads, I'll be happy
to hear it.

Thanks!
Kirill
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