On 07/31, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > +/* Lists of tasks that we are still waiting for during this grace period. */ > +static LIST_HEAD(rcu_tasks_holdouts);
This can be local var in rcu_tasks_kthread() > + while (!list_empty(&rcu_tasks_holdouts)) { > + schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ / 10); > + flush_signals(current); Still can't undestand why your paranoia wants flush_signals ;) This is unneeded and confusing. If you think we can have a bug here, then we should ot hide it, WARN_ON(signal_pending) would be better. And if you think signal_pending(current) is possible, why do you check this only after schedule_interruptible() ? > + synchronize_sched(); > + > + /* Invoke the callbacks. */ > + while (list) { > + next = list->next; > + local_bh_disable(); > + list->func(list); > + local_bh_enable(); > + list = next; > + cond_resched(); > + } Not sure this makes any sense, but perhaps we can check for the new callbacks and start the next gp. IOW, the main loop roughly does for (;;) { list = rcu_tasks_cbs_head; rcu_tasks_cbs_head = NULL; if (!list) sleep(); synchronize_sched(); wait_for_rcu_tasks_holdout(); synchronize_sched(); process_callbacks(list); } we can "join" 2 synchronize_sched's and do ready_list = NULL; for (;;) { list = rcu_tasks_cbs_head; rcu_tasks_cbs_head = NULL; if (!list && !ready_list) sleep(); synchronize_sched(); if (ready_list) { process_callbacks(ready_list); ready_list = NULL; } if (!list) continue; wait_for_rcu_tasks_holdout(); ready_list = list; } Oleg. -- 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/