Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 May 2013 17:17:53 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper |
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On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 05:46:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> If the only goal is to allow preemption, and if long grace periods are > not a concern, then this alternate approach would work fine as well.
Hmm.. if that were the goal I'd like it to have a different name; cond_resched*() has always been about preemption.
> Of course, both approaches assume that the caller is in a place > where having all RCU-protected data disappear is OK!
Quite :-)
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