On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
But there's alot of state to update (more or less
atomically, too)
Why does it need to be atomic? It might be enough
to just check a flag and poll for it in the readers and then redo the
lookup.
....
(I qualified "atomic" with "more or less" :-)
Sure, something like that could work.
There will be some hickup, but as long as the downtime
is limited it shouldn't be too bad.
Benchmarks are in order....
--
Arthur
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