Re: [PATCH] RCU read sched

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:08:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > (probably already in -tip)
> > 
> > Add rcu_read_lock_sched() and rcu_read_unlock_sched() to rcupdate.h to match the
> > recently added write-side call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched(). They also
> > match the no-so-recently-added synchronize_sched().
> > 
> > It will help following matching use of the update/read lock primitives. Those
> > new read lock will replace preempt_disable()/enable() used in pair with
> > RCU-classic synchronization.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Paul E McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Paul, does this API extension look good to you?

Yep!!!

> i'll apply it to tip/core/rcu if yes.

Please do!

							Thanx, Paul
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