[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] 3/4 combine RCU with seqlock to allow mmu notifier methods to sleep (#v9 was 1/4)

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Fri Mar 7 12:15:22 PST 2008


On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> This is a replacement for the previously posted 3/4, one of the pieces
> to allow the mmu notifier methods to sleep.

Looks good. That is what we talked about last week. What guarantees now 
that we see the cacheline referenced after the cacheline that 
contains the pointer that was changed? hlist_for_reach does a 
rcu_dereference with implied memory barrier? So its like EMM?



More information about the general mailing list