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Message-Id: <200809011708.52914.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:08:51 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, paulmck@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load v2
On Saturday 30 August 2008 18:09:00 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Remove stop_machine during module load v2
>
> module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
> the module into the global module lists. Especially on larger systems this
> can be quite expensive.
>
> It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers
> like kallsyms.
Thanks, Andi!
Applied,
Rusty.
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