From: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com (Mathieu Desnoyers)
Subject: [ltt-dev] Userspace RCU git fixes
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:14:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110911061412.GA14918@Krystal> (raw)
Hi Paul, Hi Paolo,
Just to let you know that I pushed two updates into urcu: one fixes a
grace period hang caused by a missing wakeup in the synchronize_rcu QSBR
code. This appears to hit us due to the more fine-grained wakeup
code brought by Paolo. The wakeup was really missing from the
synchronize_rcu code (so Paolo's code just triggered an existing
problem). I thought it would be good to let you know the effect: grace
periods are delayed forever. This problem never appeared in a release (I
caught it before).
The second update registers the call_rcu worker threads as RCU reader
threads, so we can take the read-side lock inside them. I put them
offline when they wait, which makes them report quiescent state in QSBR.
This turns out to be required for my hash table code, and I think this
is generally a good thing.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
next reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-11 6:14 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2011-09-12 7:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-13 17:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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