Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:42:46 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: synchronize_qrcu_timeout() |
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On Mon 2007-06-25 19:49:57, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 06/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > On 06/25, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:43:32PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > > > > > Sadly, you can't use srcu/qrcu because it doesn't handle timeouts. > > > > > > Interesting... So the thought is to have a synchronize_srcu_timeout() > > > or something similar that waited for a grace period to elapse or for > > > a timeout to expire, whichever comes first? It should not be too hard > > > to arrange something, if needed. > > > > Yes. As for qrcu (see http://marc.info/?t=116484476500001), I think it is easy. > > First, we add "int interrupted" into struct qrcu_struct, then something like this > > Even simpler, we don't need ->interrupted. > > long synchronize_qrcu_timeout(struct qrcu_struct *qp, long tout) > { > int idx, prv;
Could we get less encrypted variable names? tout? Yes, I can decipher it. Pavel
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