Re: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side criticalsection?

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 09 2013 - 09:37:04 EST


On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:23:43AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And guys, I have to say that the advice on which per-CPU primitive to use
> varies wildly and randomly. For all I know, each of you individually
> might well be sticking to the same story, but taken together, your
> collective advice is strongly resembling white noise.

Its partly because cl and I disagree on things. He doesn't seem to care
much about validation and believes that people will not make mistakes
with this stuff.

And partly because I didn't get what was going on. While Frederic's
explanation might be correct it was incomprehensible for me.
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