Re: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion

Paul E. McKenney (pmckenne@us.ibm.com)
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:37:34 -0700 (PDT)


>Where, if anywhere, is this worth it? Good question: 3% on 4-way
>dbench doesn't cut it in my book...

No argument here, we need to show compelling performance cases for RCU in
a number of situations. We have some (e.g., for FD set management on
8-way reported at OLS), but need more. We will continue to work on this.

If nothing else, this thread seems to have raised awareness of RCU. ;-)

Thanx, Paul
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