From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754908Ab3JDOni (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:43:38 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:48397 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754566Ab3JDOni (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:43:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:43:19 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rcu: Create rcu_sync infrastructure Message-ID: <20131004144319.GM3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20131003193319.GB17796@redhat.com> <20131003195026.GT5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20131003200002.GA23768@redhat.com> <20131003211009.GA4127@redhat.com> <20131004071814.GS28601@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131004111513.GA5699@redhat.com> <20131004114442.GJ3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131004121300.GA7725@redhat.com> <20131004123806.GK3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131004133135.GA11097@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131004133135.GA11097@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > I'm really starting to think we shouldn't do this in rcu_sync at all. > > I do not really understand why you insist that rcu_sync() should not > try to help to the users which need the exclusive mode. But what other users; you yourself said that percpu-rwsem isn't one for long if ever.