Re: [PATCH] RCU barrier

[Nikita Danilov]

Dipankar Sarma writes:
 > This patch introduces a new interface - rcu_barrier() which waits
 > until all the RCUs queued until this call have been completed.
 > Nikita asked for this quite a while ago for reiser4 jnodes.
 > Sorry Nikita, if you are still using RCU in new reiserfs, 
 > you don't need to use your own logic for this now. Just	
 > call rcu_barrier() during umount.
 > 
 > If Nikita or other users use it, then I would like to push for
 > including this.

Yes, we are still using RCU in the reiser4 (bravely). rcu_barrier()
would allow us to get rid of some really ugly code.

 > 
 > Thanks
 > Dipankar
 > 

Nikita.

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