Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:00:04 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] rcu: don't check ->donelist in __rcu_pending() |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:19:24PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > ->donelist becomes != NULL only in rcu_process_callbacks(). > > rcu_process_callbacks() always calls rcu_do_batch() when > ->donelist != NULL. > > rcu_do_batch() schedules rcu_process_callbacks() again if > ->donelist was not flushed entirely. > > So ->donelist != NULL means that rcu_tasklet is either > TASKLET_STATE_SCHED or TASKLET_STATE_RUN, we don't need to > check it in __rcu_pending(). > > [ This patch was tested with rcutorture.ko, I don't understand > it's output, but it says "End of test: SUCCESS". So if this > patch incorrect blame Paul, not me! ]
;-)
Did you run the newest version of rcutorture.ko that includes Vatsa's CPU-hotplug additions?
Thanx, Paul
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> > > --- 2.6.15/kernel/rcupdate.c~2_DONE 2006-01-08 21:35:21.000000000 +0300 > +++ 2.6.15/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-01-08 21:55:45.000000000 +0300 > @@ -454,10 +454,6 @@ static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_ctrl > if (!rdp->curlist && rdp->nxtlist) > return 1; > > - /* This cpu has finished callbacks to invoke */ > - if (rdp->donelist) > - return 1; > - > /* The rcu core waits for a quiescent state from the cpu */ > if (rdp->quiescbatch != rcp->cur || rdp->qs_pending) > return 1; > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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