Re: [PATCH 3/5] rcu: don't set ->next_pending in rcu_start_batch()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 14:02:47 EST


On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:19:33PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> I think it is better to set ->next_pending in the caller, when
> it is needed. This saves one parameter, and this coincides with
> cpu_quiet() beahaviour, which sets ->completed = ->cur itself.

Makes sense to me!

Thanx, Paul

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- 2.6.15/kernel/rcupdate.c~3_NPEND 2006-01-08 21:55:45.000000000 +0300
> +++ 2.6.15/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-01-08 22:46:13.000000000 +0300
> @@ -249,12 +249,8 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_data
> * active batch and the batch to be registered has not already occurred.
> * Caller must hold rcu_state.lock.
> */
> -static void rcu_start_batch(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp, struct rcu_state *rsp,
> - int next_pending)
> +static void rcu_start_batch(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp, struct rcu_state *rsp)
> {
> - if (next_pending)
> - rcp->next_pending = 1;
> -
> if (rcp->next_pending &&
> rcp->completed == rcp->cur) {
> rcp->next_pending = 0;
> @@ -288,7 +284,7 @@ static void cpu_quiet(int cpu, struct rc
> if (cpus_empty(rsp->cpumask)) {
> /* batch completed ! */
> rcp->completed = rcp->cur;
> - rcu_start_batch(rcp, rsp, 0);
> + rcu_start_batch(rcp, rsp);
> }
> }
>
> @@ -423,7 +419,8 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(stru
> if (!rcp->next_pending) {
> /* and start it/schedule start if it's a new batch */
> spin_lock(&rsp->lock);
> - rcu_start_batch(rcp, rsp, 1);
> + rcp->next_pending = 1;
> + rcu_start_batch(rcp, rsp);
> spin_unlock(&rsp->lock);
> }
> } else {
>
-
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