* Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > secondly, i think i saw functionality problems when RCU was not
> > completed before going idle - for example synchronize_rcu() on
> > another CPU would hang.
>
> That is probably because of what I mention above. In the original
> CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ, we don't go into a nohz state if there are RCUs
> pending in that cpu.
hm. I just tried it and it seems completing RCU processing isnt even
necessary. I'll drop the RCU hackery. If we need anything then in
synchronize_rcu [which is a rare and slowpath op]: there (on NO_HZ) we
should tickle all cpus via an smp_call_function().
Ingo
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