linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rcu: Eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:14:41 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

* Mike Galbraith | 2013-12-25 18:37:37 [+0100]:

>On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 23:55 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: 
>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 04:07:34AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>Having sufficiently recovered from turkey overdose to be able to slither
>upstairs (bump bump bump) to check on the box, commenting..
>
># timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch
># rtmutex-use-a-trylock-for-waiter-lock-in-trylock.patch
>
>..those two out does seem to have stabilized the thing.

timers-do-not-raise-softirq-unconditionally.patch is on its way out.

rtmutex-use-a-trylock-for-waiter-lock-in-trylock.patch confues me.
Didn't you report once that your box deadlocks without this patch? Now
your 64way box on the other hand does not work with it?

>Merry Christmasss,
>
>-Mike

Sebastian
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