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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:05:52 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Revert SRCU from tracepoint infrastructure
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:46:16 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Furthermore, using srcu would be detrimental, because of how it has
> smp_mb() in the read side primitives.

I didn't realize that there was a full memory barrier in the srcu read
side. Seems to me that itself is rational for reverting it. And also a
big NAK for any suggestion to have any of the function tracing to use
it as well (which comes up here and there).

-- Steve