Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:13:17 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Force rcutorture tasks to spread over CPUs |
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:28:04 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> + while (!startwriters) > + barrier(); /* Force scheduler to spread over CPUs. */
one wonders whether a cpu_relax() would be a bit nicer here. That implicitly does a barrier().
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