Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/9] rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force quiescent states in long loops

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 29 2014 - 13:36:16 EST


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:33:18AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > No, but why can't we make the regular cond_resched() do this?
>
> Well, I got a lot of grief when I tried it a few weeks ago.
>
> But from what I can see, you are the maintainer or cond_resched(), so
> if you are good with making the normal cond_resched() do this, I am
> more than happy to make it so! ;-)

Well, its the 'obvious' thing to do. But clearly I haven't tried so I'm
blissfully unaware of any problems. And the Changelog didn't inform me
either (you had a link in there, which I didn't read :-)
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