Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add hazard pointers to kernel
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Sep 18 2024 - 03:20:41 EST
On Tue, 17 Sept 2024 at 16:34, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series introduces hazard pointers [1] to kernel space. A TL;DR
> description of hazard pointers is "a scalable refcounting mechanim
> with RCU-like API". More information can be found at [2].
Please give actual "this is useful for X, and here is an actual real
load with numbers showing why it matters".
We don't just merge random infrastructure without a use-case and an
argument for it.
Linus