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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu-bh design
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 13:37:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504133726.3f04d7bf@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180504173205.GQ26088@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, 4 May 2018 10:32:06 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > But preemptible RCU *does not* use context-switch as a quiescent state.  
> > 
> > It doesn't?  
> 
> It does, but only sort of.

Ah, my confusion. I was thinking of rcu_read_lock_sched() as
"preemptible RCU", not the "we can preempt in rcu_read_lock() context".

-- Steve


> 
> A context switch really is always an RCU-preempt quiescent state from
> the perspective of the CPU.  However, from the perspective of the task,
> context switch is a quiescent state only if the task is not in an
> RCU-preempt read-side critical section at the time.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-04 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-04 16:20 rcu-bh design Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 16:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-05-04 17:15   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 17:43     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-04 18:34       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 18:49         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-04 19:57           ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 20:11             ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-04 20:33               ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 22:49                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-04 23:20                   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 23:43                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-05  0:39                       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 17:32   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-04 17:37     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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