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Message-ID: <20151124095156.GP17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:51:56 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] stop_machine: Remove stop_cpus_lock and
lg_double_lock/unlock()
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:53:39PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Isn't this a lot more subtler than the other direction? Unless
> there's a clear performance advantage to removing stopper->lock, using
> lglock for both stop_two and stop_machine seems like an
> easier-to-follow approach to me.
The idea is to kill lglock. There's only two users, this and fs/locks.c
for which I have patches -- which are being benchmarked 'now-ish' :-)
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