Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: Add cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 17:17 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 05:46:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > If the only goal is to allow preemption, and if long grace periods are
> > not a concern, then this alternate approach would work fine as well.
> 
> Hmm.. if that were the goal I'd like it to have a different name;
> cond_resched*() has always been about preemption.

BTW, I do not remember why cond_resched() is not an empty macro
when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y ?


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