Re: [PATCH] Fixes for RCU handling of task_struct

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 09:08:50 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of
> tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP
> and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU.

this should read:

RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked
instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement
on SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU.

Ingo
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