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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] RCU : OOM avoidance and lower latency
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On Friday 06 January 2006 11:17, Eric Dumazet wrote:

>
> I assume that if a CPU queued 10.000 items in its RCU queue, then the
> oldest entry cannot still be in use by another CPU. This might sounds as a
> violation of RCU rules, (I'm not an RCU expert) but seems quite reasonable.

I don't think it's a good assumption. Another CPU might be stuck in a long
running interrupt, and still have a reference in the code running below
the interrupt handler.

And in general letting correctness depend on magic numbers like this is
very nasty.

-Andi
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