Re: [PATCH 2/3] rcu: Create rcu_sync infrastructure

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:13:23PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Not sure I understand...
> 
> percpu-rwsem will use exclusive mode, with or without the possible
> improvements we can copy from cpuhp. sb_writers can probably use it
> too (along with other helpers from percpu-rwsem we do not have yet).

Oh; I thought to have understood it would go away when you switched to
the reader scheme from the hotplug bits.

But thinking a little more; yes you'd still need something to serialize
writers.

> If you mean that the "raw" rcu_sync infrastructure will never have
> more users, will I am not sure, it looks "natural". But I can not
> know for sure.

Right, so this would be something I'd forgo if there were no immediate
users. We could always reconsider if there was one; but apparently
percpu-rwsem is one..

> I am not trying saying this feature is "must have", of course it
> is not. The only problem, I am a bit puzzled why you dislike it
> that much.

The reason I dislike it is because I feel we're now mixing two objects
into one; one object doing mutual exclusion and one object being
terribly smart with sync_rcu.

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