Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)

[Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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> Tell me more about percpu_ptr().

Sorry about this. percpu_ptr is used for dynamic allocation percpu pointer.

It seems that we cannot get a pointer from a static declare percpu data
which can be used as a dynamic allocation percpu data's pointer. 

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> I have a somewhat different goal here.  I want to simplify the memory
> ordering design without giving up too much performance -- the current
> state in mainline is much too fragile, in my opinion, especially given
> that the grace-period code paths are not fastpaths.
> 
> Next step -- hierarchical grace-period detection to handle the 4096-CPU
> machines that I was being buttonholed about at OLS...
> 
> Would you be interested in applying your multi-tailed list change to
> preemptable RCU?
> 
It's not necessary. Actually I like one tail per list which is good for
readability. 

But in my patch, the most work is combining lists, not
moving a list to next list, so i use multi-tailed simplify this works
and others(etc: "if (rdp->nxtlist)" will be changed to be a more
complex and less readability statement if i use one-tail-per-list)

These not means multi-tailed is good thing.