Re: [PATCH] RCU barrier

[Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:31:29PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Dipankar Sarma writes:
>  > This patch introduces a new interface - rcu_barrier() which waits
>  > until all the RCUs queued until this call have been completed.
>  > Nikita asked for this quite a while ago for reiser4 jnodes.
>  > Sorry Nikita, if you are still using RCU in new reiserfs, 
>  > you don't need to use your own logic for this now. Just	
>  > call rcu_barrier() during umount.
>  > 
>  > If Nikita or other users use it, then I would like to push for
>  > including this.
> 
> Yes, we are still using RCU in the reiser4 (bravely). rcu_barrier()
> would allow us to get rid of some really ugly code.

Cool. Let me know if the rcu-barrier patch works for you. If it
does, I will push for its inclusion.

Thanks
Dipankar