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Date:	Sun, 5 Oct 2014 08:53:08 -0400
From:	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] team: add rescheduling jiffy delay on !rtnl_trylock

On 10/04/2014 10:13 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 01:37:32AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> FWIW, there is a cond_resched_rcu_qs() that should be going into the next
>> merge window that could be used in place of the above two lines.  This is
>> commit bde6c3aa9930 in -tip.
> 
> That sounds even better.
> 
> Joe, can you please send a patch with proper SOB and description?
> 
> Thanks.

New patch tested and posted on lkml w/everyone CC'd.

I wasn't sure if cond_resched_rcu_qs will be backported, so how should
-stable handle this condition?

Regards,

-- Joe
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