Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 08:28 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:

> We can, but the data being on read-side is going to be out-of-date
> more than without the use of rcu_assign_pointer(). Do we need variants
> like to rcu_rb_next() to avoid overheads for everyone?

More or less doesn't matter! As long as you cannot get it atomic there's
holes and you need to deal with it.

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