From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: Add paravirt kvm_flush_tlb_others Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 18:31:36 +0300 Message-ID: <4FA001D8.6080801@redhat.com> References: <20120427161727.27082.43096.stgit@abhimanyu> <20120427162401.27082.59387.stgit@abhimanyu> <4F9D32B4.8040002@redhat.com> <1335865176.13683.120.camel@twins> <4F9FBF38.2060903@redhat.com> <1335869827.13683.133.camel@twins> <4F9FD337.5010908@redhat.com> <1335884353.13683.144.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nikunj A. Dadhania" , mingo@elte.hu, jeremy@goop.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1335884353.13683.144.camel@twins> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 05/01/2012 05:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 15:12 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > local_irq_save() is a stronger version or rcu_read_lock() > > Not so, local_irq_save() doesn't at all stop regular RCU grace periods, > things like preemptible rcu can be driven from rcu_read_unlock(). > > Note that this is the reason call_rcu_sched() exists and is used in this > case. Ah, thanks for the correction. I'll read some more about the _sched variants. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function