On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:36:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:23:43AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > And guys, I have to say that the advice on which per-CPU primitive to use > > varies wildly and randomly. For all I know, each of you individually > > might well be sticking to the same story, but taken together, your > > collective advice is strongly resembling white noise. > > Its partly because cl and I disagree on things. He doesn't seem to care > much about validation and believes that people will not make mistakes > with this stuff.
At some point, my only recourse would be to require an Acked-by from one of you for any per-CPU changes proposed by the other. I really hope that it doesn't come to that, but this situation is getting a bit annoying. > And partly because I didn't get what was going on. While Frederic's > explanation might be correct it was incomprehensible for me. And I freely admit that the comments on rcu_is_cpu_idle() are completely inadequate, and I do apologize for that. Seemed clear at the time. But then it always does, doesn't it? ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/