Re: irq 16: nobody cared

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Apr 21 2013 - 18:12:45 EST


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:00:15PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Cool!!! Note that there is no need for expediting TINY_RCU because
> its grace periods are already maximally expedited. There is only one
> CPU, so if you are following the rules, when you call synchronize_rcu(),
> by definition there is a zero-length grace period. ;-)
>
> So all you need is rcutree.c.

Ok, even better :-).

> Looking forward to the section-mismatch-free version!

Yeah, here it is. Please sanity-check the commit message whether I'm
making sense.

I've just pulled -rc8 and tip/master + this patch and a couple of other
fixes and will run it the coming week to make sure there are no other
issues.

Thanks!

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