netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipvs: Use cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper when dumping connections

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Message-ID: <1367000815.8964.243.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:26:55 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>, dhaval.giani@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipvs: Use cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper when
 dumping connections

On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 10:48 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, I am not opposing cond_resched_rcu_lock() because it
> will be difficult to validate.  For one thing, until there are a lot of
> them, manual inspection is quite possible.  So feel free to apply my
> Acked-by to the patch.

One question : If some thread(s) is(are) calling rcu_barrier() and
waiting we exit from rcu_read_lock() section, is need_resched() enough
for allowing to break the section ?

If not, maybe we should not test need_resched() at all.

rcu_read_unlock();
cond_resched();
rcu_read_lock();



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