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From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "fweisbec@gmail.com" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] jrcu: fix broken rcu_barrier
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:09:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314220928.GA1348@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110314084718.GH2167@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:47:18AM -0400, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:50:44PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> > +void rcu_barrier(void)
> > +{
> > +	synchronize_sched();
> > +	synchronize_sched();
> > +}
> 
> This is still broken.  You need to wait until all pre-existing RCU
> callbacks on all CPUs have been invoked.  Although this does guarantee
> that all callbacks on the current CPU have been invoked, if one of the
> other CPUs is busy, it might not yet have processed the callbacks from
> earlier grace periods.  The usual way to take care of this is to post
> a callback on each CPU, then wait for them all to be invoked.

Hi Paul,
JRCU (eventually) chains together all callbacks from all
cpus into a single queue and then it expires that single
queue.  So the double synchronize_sched() should work as
a rcu_barrier implementation.

Thanks,
Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14  3:50 [PATCH 8/9] jrcu: fix broken rcu_barrier Joe Korty
2011-03-14  8:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-14 22:09   ` Joe Korty [this message]
2011-03-23  6:35     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-23 13:46       ` Joe Korty
2011-03-24  0:23         ` Paul E. McKenney

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