Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:10:55 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RCU read sched |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:08:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote: > > > (probably already in -tip) > > > > Add rcu_read_lock_sched() and rcu_read_unlock_sched() to rcupdate.h to match the > > recently added write-side call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched(). They also > > match the no-so-recently-added synchronize_sched(). > > > > It will help following matching use of the update/read lock primitives. Those > > new read lock will replace preempt_disable()/enable() used in pair with > > RCU-classic synchronization. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > CC: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Paul, does this API extension look good to you?
Yep!!!
> i'll apply it to tip/core/rcu if yes.
Please do!
Thanx, Paul
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