Re: [Lse-tech] Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:25:27 +1000


In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110120948540.31692-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> you
write:
> Yes. With maybe
>
> non_preempt()
> ..
> preempt()
>
> around it for the pre-emption patches.

Sure, if they want pre-emption on SMP. Of course, then they'll want
priority inheritence.

> However, you also need to make your free _free_ be aware of the count.
> Which means that the current RCU patch is really unusable for this. You
> need to have the "count" always in a generic place (put it with the hash),
> and your schedule-time free needs to do
>
> if (atomic_read(&count))
> skip_this_do_it_next_time

WTF? I'll spell it out for you again:

static inline void foo_put(struct foo *foo)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(foo->use))
kfree(foo);
}

Write side normal:

lock
unhash(foo)
unlock
foo_put(foo)

Write side RCU:

lock
unhash(foo)
unlock
rcu_call(foo_put, foo);
/* ie. call foo_put(foo) "later". */

That's all. Really.

> Do that, and the RCU patches may start looking usable for the real world.

I know you're under strain, but think harder please.

Rusty.

--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
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