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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B0CB47.2070301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B0CA2D.3060506@cn.fujitsu.com>



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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 14:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rcu: actually register threads that have RCU read-side critical sections Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-23  2:56 ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-23  5:35   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-23 10:30 ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-07-23 10:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-23 11:04     ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-23 11:08       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-07-23 12:59         ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-23 16:58           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-24  3:55             ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-24  5:56             ` Wen Congyang
2015-07-24  6:22               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-24  6:30                 ` Wen Congyang

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