Il 28/11/2013 12:23, Gleb Natapov ha scritto: >>> > > Unless what ? :) Unless reader is scheduled out? >> > >> > Yes. Or unless my brain is scheduled out in the middle of a sentence. >> > > So we will have to disable preemption in a reader to prevent big latencies for > a writer, no?
I don't think that's necessary. The writer itself could also be scheduled out, and the reader critical sections are really small. Let's wait for Zhang to try SRCU and report back. Paolo