Re: Real-Time Preemption and RCU

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 04:20:01 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have tested this approach, but in user-level scaffolding. All of
> these implementations should therefore be regarded with great
> suspicion: untested, probably don't even compile. Besides which, I
> certainly can't claim to fully understand the real-time preempt patch,
> so I am bound to have gotten something wrong somewhere. [...]

you dont even have to consider the -RT patchset: if the scheme allows
forced preemption of read-side RCU sections on current upstream
CONFIG_PREEMPT, then it's perfect for PREEMPT_RT too.

Ingo
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