linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 0/8] timekeeping: Implement shadow timekeeper to shorten in kernel reader side blocking

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:06:49 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/8] timekeeping: Implement shadow timekeeper to
 shorten in kernel reader side blocking

On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 22:51 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Now the obvious question whether this is worth the trouble can be
> answered easily. Preempt-RT users and HPC folks have complained about
> the long write hold time of the timekeeping seqcount since years and a
> quick test on a preempt-RT enabled kernel shows, that this series
> lowers the maximum latency on the non-timekeeping cores from 8 to 4
> microseconds. That's a whopping factor of 2. Defintely worth the
> trouble!

Thanks for doing this !


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