Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu] Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > > I like this approach *far* better.  This is the kind of thing I had in
> > > mind when I suggested using the fqs machinery: remove the poll entirely
> > > and just thwack a CPU if it takes too long without a quiescent state.
> > > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> >
> > Glad you like it.  Not a fan of the IPI myself, but then again if you
> > are spending that must time looping in the kernel, an extra IPI is the
> > least of your problems.
> 
> Good. The IPI is only used when actually necessary. The code inserted
> was always there and always executed although rarely needed.

Interesting.  I actually proposed this approach several times in the
earlier thread, but to deafing silence: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/18/836,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/17/793, and https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/20/479.

I guess this further validates interpreting silence as assent.

							Thanx, Paul