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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 24/28] rcu: Introduce bulk reference count
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:30:45PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The RCU implementations, including SRCU, are designed to be used in a
> > lock-like fashion, so that the read-side lock and unlock primitives must
> > execute in the same context for any given read-side critical section.
> > This constraint is enforced by lockdep-RCU. However, there is a need for
> > something that acts more like a reference count than a lock, in order
> > to allow (for example) the reference to be acquired within the context
> > of an exception, while that same reference is released in the context of
> > the task that encountered the exception. The cost of this capability is
> > that the read-side operations incur the overhead of disabling interrupts.
> > Some optimization is possible, and will be carried out if warranted.
> >
> > Note that although the current implementation allows a given reference to
> > be acquired by one task and then released by another, all known possible
> > implementations that allow this have scalability problems. Therefore,
> > a given reference must be released by the same task that acquired it,
> > though perhaps from an interrupt or exception handler running within
> > that task's context.
>
> This new bulkref API seems in dire need of documentation. :)
>
> > --- a/include/linux/srcu.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
> > @@ -181,4 +181,54 @@ static inline void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
> > __srcu_read_unlock(sp, idx);
> > }
> >
> > +/* Definitions for bulkref_t, currently defined in terms of SRCU. */
> > +
> > +typedef struct srcu_struct bulkref_t;
> > +int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp);
> > +
> > +static inline int init_bulkref(bulkref_t *brp)
> > +{
> > + return init_srcu_struct_fields(brp);
> > +}
>
> Why can't this call init_srcu_struct and avoid the need to use the
> previously unexported internal function?

Seems reasonable now that you mention it. ;-)

Thanx, Paul



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