Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault. | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:34:56 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 08:28 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> We can, but the data being on read-side is going to be out-of-date > more than without the use of rcu_assign_pointer(). Do we need variants > like to rcu_rb_next() to avoid overheads for everyone?
More or less doesn't matter! As long as you cannot get it atomic there's holes and you need to deal with it.
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