linux-kernel - Fw: Re: Linux Plumbers funding to go? / two minconf's

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20150810164512.GD3862@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:45:12 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	netoptimizer@...uer.com, jesper.brouer@...il.com,
	jesper@...uer.com, aravinda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Fw: Re: Linux Plumbers funding to go? / two minconf's

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:39:28PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Specifically for Paul: I would like to discuss with you Paul how we can
> speed up RCU object freeing, by using my new SLAB/slub bulk API[*].
> The delayed free by RCU cause us to hit the slub slowpath... I'm hoping
> to speedup this up by bulk freeing... hoping to mitigate the effect of
> "rcuo" slowdown.  Specifically I'm looking for stress testing RCU
> tools, as I want to measure the effect/improvement.
> 
> [*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/135704
> 
> p.s. I'm on vacation ATM, thus Cc. jesper.brouer@...il.com or
> jesper@...uer.com.

Just thought I should get you in touch with Aravida Prasad (CCed), who
has been doing some related work in speeding up RCU/slab freeing.

							Thanx, Paul

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/