Tasks RCU vs Preempt RCU

[Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>]

Hi,

I was thinking about tasks-RCU and why its needed. Since preempt-RCU allows
tasks to be preempted in read-sections, can we not just reuse that mechanism
for the trampolines since we track all preempted tasks so we would wait on
all tasks preempted within a trampoline?

I am trying to understand what will _not_ work if we did that.. I'm guessing
the answer is that that would mean the trampoline has to be wrapped with
rcu_read_{lock,unlock} which may add some overhead, but please let me know
if I'm missing something else..

The advantage I guess is possible elimination of an RCU variant, and also
possibly eliminating the tasks RCU thread that monitors.. Anyway I was
thinking more in terms of the effort of reduction of the RCU flavors etc and
reducing complexity ideas.

thanks!

- Joel