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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rcu: actually register threads that have RCU re


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rcu: actually register threads that have RCU read-side critical sections
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:08:55 +0200
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On 23/07/2015 13:04, Wen Congyang wrote:
> > Yes.  I think this is better for 2.4.  There are threads that do not
> > need RCU, for example the thread-pool.c worker threads, so it may just
>
> If the thread doesn't use RCU, rcu_register_thread() is harmless, is it right?

Every rcu_register_thread() makes synchronize_rcu() a little slower.

>> > be simpler to add an assertion in rcu_register_thread.  I'm just a bit
>> > wary of doing little more than the bare minimum in 2.4, because of the
>> > OS X failure that I didn't quite understand.
> Which problem? I don't find it in the maillist.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/351548

Paolo



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