Re: [PATCH 1/3] tracepoints: Do not use call_rcu_sched() before early_initcall()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:14:57 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If IRQ setup, or other core pieces of code can use this, then I would
> agree that rcu should be changed. But until then, I rather not add
> another conditional to the core RCU code.

Also, call_rcu*() is called from several hot paths. This location is
not a hot path, and actually, it is in fact rather slow. That's another
reason not to add the logic into the RCU code if just adding it to
tracepoints is sufficient.

-- Steve
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