Re: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-08 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2018-11-08 09:35:25 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > I agree that tglx's patch is needed for 4.19 and earlier. Just not for > 4.20 and later. > > Or am I still missing your point? nope, I think we are good. > Thanx, Paul Sebastian

Re: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-08 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:15:16PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2018-11-08 08:42:47 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:02:57PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > On 2018-11-01 16:18:04 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > The need for this

Re: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-08 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2018-11-08 08:42:47 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:02:57PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > On 2018-11-01 16:18:04 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > The need for this goes away as of the current merge window because > > > RCU-bh has gone away. (Asi

Re: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-08 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:02:57PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2018-11-01 16:18:04 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > The need for this goes away as of the current merge window because > > RCU-bh has gone away. (Aside from still being able to do things > > like rcu_read_lock_bh(

Re: rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-08 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2018-11-01 16:18:04 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The need for this goes away as of the current merge window because > RCU-bh has gone away. (Aside from still being able to do things > like rcu_read_lock_bh() as a documentation device.) So in -RT rcu_read_lock_bh() does { local_bh_disabl

rcu: Merge RCU-bh into RCU-preempt

2018-11-01 Thread Paul E. McKenney
> The Linux kernel has long RCU-bh read-side critical sections that > intolerably increase scheduling latency under mainline's RCU-bh rules, > which include RCU-bh read-side critical sections being non-preemptible. > This patch therefore arranges for RCU-bh to be implemented in terms of > RCU-preem