On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:10:17PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > This commit adds fields to the rcu_dyntick structure that are used to > detect idle CPUs. These new fields differ from the existing ones in > that the existing ones consider a CPU executing in user mode to be idle, > where the new ones consider CPUs executing in user mode to be busy.
Can you explain, both in the commit messages and in the comments added by the next commit, *why* this code doesn't consider userspace a quiescent state? - Josh Triplett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
