linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] v4 scalable classic RCU implementation

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Message-ID: <48CFF150.8070400@colorfullife.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:48:00 +0200
From:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] v4 scalable classic RCU implementation

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>   
>> That means an O(NR_CPUS) loop with disabled local interrupts :-(
>> Is that correct?
>>     
>
> With the definition of "O()" being the worst-case execution time, yes.
> But this worst case could only happen when the system was mostly idle,
> in which case the added overhead should not be too horribly bad.
No: "was mostly running cpu_idle()". A cpu_idle() cpu could execute lots 
of irqs and softirqs.
So the worst case would be a system with 1 cpu/node for reserved for irq 
handling.
The "idle" cpu would be always in no_hz mode, even though it might be 
100% busy handling irqs.
The remaning cpus might be 100% busy handling user space.

And every quiescent state will end up in that O(NR_CPUS) loop.

--
    Manfred
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