Re: [RFC] dynticks: dynticks_idle is only modified locally use this_cpu ops

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Sep 10 2014 - 18:18:38 EST


On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:20:30PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > The lglocks use should be of particular interest to you. See above to
> > find the others.
>
> Well the other seem to be in drivers.

OK...

> > Understood, but no hasty changes to that part of RCU.
>
> At our age I think we have learned to be very deliberate and slow.

And rcutorture needs some upgrades for this case.

> > rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for rcu_data
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you, recorded.

Thanx, Paul

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