Re: [PATCH RFC ftrace] Chose RCU Tasks based on TASKS_RCU rather than PREEMPTION

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 12:25:10 -0800
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > That would work for me.  If there are no objections, I will make this
> > change.  
> 
> But I did check the latency of synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() (about 100ms)
> and synchronize_rcu() (about 20ms).  This is on a 80-hardware-thread
> x86 system that is being flooded with calls to one or the other of
> these two functions, but is otherwise idle.  So adding that unnecessary
> synchronize_rcu() adds about 20% to that synchronization delay.
> 
> Which might still be OK, but...  In the immortal words of MS-DOS,
> "Are you sure?".  ;-)

It's just safe to keep it. It's definitely not a fast path.

-- Steve