Re: [PATCH 1/8] rcu/exp: Remove full barrier upon main thread wakeup

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:48:41PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Le Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:47:16PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker a écrit :
> > Le Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:23:39PM -0800, Boqun Feng a écrit :
> > > From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > When an expedited grace period is ending, care must be taken so that all
> > > the quiescent states propagated up to the root are correctly ordered
> > > against the wake up of the main expedited grace period workqueue.
> > > 
> > > This ordering is already carried through the root rnp locking augmented
> > > by an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() barrier.
> > > 
> > > Therefore the explicit smp_mb() placed before the wake up is not needed
> > > and can be removed.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > 
> > [Offlist]
> 
> And yes that was not offlist, my fingers betrayed me!
> 

Thanks for the reminder anyway ;-)

Regards,
Boqun

> > 
> > For further posting, don't forget to add your own SoB while posting patches :-)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> >