DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-07
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Re: token passing & IPIs
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:20:00PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :
> : Are you planning to use a Read-Copy-Update mechanism for
> : file system lookups? This could provide scalable performance
> : according to the theory to which it works.
> :
> : Just my 2 cents. :-)
> :
> : Cheers.
> :
> : -- Hiten (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> I don't know enough about the mechanism to have an opinion one way or
> the other. Read-Copy-Update sounds suspiciously like an MESI model.
It's the lock-less SMP stuff that Linux is using. The idea
originated from IBM's Paul McKenney; and Rusty Russel of Linux
Camp actual made it work for Linux 2.4.x and later versions [2]
It will be a good idea to do lock-less file system lookups,
since it is a lookup, there is no write to it, thus we can avoid
locks as much as we can. So can we for device state tables, and
such.
They have seen a significant scalability gain according to the
results, and the basic theory behind how
Read-Copy-Update/Lock-Less works [1].
[1] - http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/dcache/dcache.html
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/rclock/intro/rclock_intro.html
[2] - http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html
Cheers.
-- Hiten (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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