On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:16 PM Paul E. McKenney wrote:
[snip]
> > > And this example code predates v2.6.12. ;-)
> > >
> > > So good eyes, but I believe that this really does reflect the ancient
> > > code...
> > >
> > > On the other hand, would you have ideas for more modern replacement
> > > exa
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:43:05PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:16:38AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> [snip]
> > > The other example could be dentry look up which uses seqlocks for the
> > > RCU-walk case? But that could be too complex. This is also something I
> >
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:16:38AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
[snip]
> > The other example could be dentry look up which uses seqlocks for the
> > RCU-walk case? But that could be too complex. This is also something I first
> > learnt from the paper and then the excellent path-lookup.rst docume
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 05:41:31PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:11:26AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > Hi Paul, Joel,
> >
> > > > > On the other hand, would you have ideas for more modern replacement
> > > > > examples?
> > > >
> > > > There are 3 cases I can see in
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:11:26AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> Hi Paul, Joel,
>
> > > > On the other hand, would you have ideas for more modern replacement
> > > > examples?
> > >
> > > There are 3 cases I can see in listRCU.txt:
> > > (1) action taken outside of read_lock (can tolerate stale
Hi Paul, Joel,
> > > On the other hand, would you have ideas for more modern replacement
> > > examples?
> >
> > There are 3 cases I can see in listRCU.txt:
> > (1) action taken outside of read_lock (can tolerate stale data), no
> > in-place update.
> > this is the best possibl
