Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] rcu/tree: Make FQS complaining about offline CPU more aggressive

2020-08-10 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:07:20PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > The FQS loop detecting that an offline CPU has not yet reported a > quiescent state, is a serious problem. The current interaction between > RCU quiescent-state reporting and CPU-hotplug operations means that the > FQS loop

[PATCH v4 3/5] rcu/tree: Make FQS complaining about offline CPU more aggressive

2020-08-07 Thread Joel Fernandes (Google)
The FQS loop detecting that an offline CPU has not yet reported a quiescent state, is a serious problem. The current interaction between RCU quiescent-state reporting and CPU-hotplug operations means that the FQS loop should never find that an offline CPU (by RCU's understanding of what is offline