On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:28:45AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > On 08/01/2014 05:55 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > + rcu_read_lock(); > > + for_each_process_thread(g, t) { > > + if (t != current && ACCESS_ONCE(t->on_rq) && > > + !is_idle_task(t)) { > > + get_task_struct(t); > > + t->rcu_tasks_nvcsw = ACCESS_ONCE(t->nvcsw); > > + ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_tasks_holdout) = 1; > > + list_add(&t->rcu_tasks_holdout_list, > > + &rcu_tasks_holdouts); > > This loop will collect all the runnable tasks. It is too much tasks. > Is it possible to collect only on_cpu tasks or PREEMPT_ACTIVE tasks? > It seems hard to achieve it.
Without taking the rq->lock you cannot do that race-free. And we're not going to be taking rq->lock here.
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