On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That callback will be queued on CPU#2 - while the task still keeps
> > current->rcu_data of CPU#1. It also means that CPU#2's read counter
> > did _not_ get increased - and a too short grace period may occur.
> >
> > it seems to me that that only safe method is to pick an 'RCU CPU' when
> > first entering the read section, and then sticking to it, no matter
> > where the task gets migrated to. Or to 'migrate' the +1 read count
> > from one CPU to the other, within the scheduler.
>
> i think the 'migrate read-count' method is not adequate either, because
> all callbacks queued within an RCU read section must be called after the
> lock has been dropped - while with the migration method CPU#1 would be
> free to process callbacks queued in the RCU read section still active on
> CPU#2.
>
Hi Ingo,
Although you can't disable preemption for the duration of the
rcu_readlock, what about pinning the process to a CPU while it has the
lock. Would this help solve the migration issue?
-- Steve
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