Re: [RFC PATCH 11/14] context-tracking: Introduce work deferral infrastructure

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 12:41:04AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > If this is just about a dozen, can we stuff them in the state like in the
> > following? We can potentially add more of them especially on 64 bits we could
> > afford 30 different works, this is just shrinking the RCU extended quiescent
> > state counter space. Worst case that can happen is that RCU misses 65535
> > idle/user <-> kernel transitions and delays a grace period...
> 
> We can make all this a 64bit only feature and use atomic_long_t :-)

Works for me :)