* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And the other reason that you want to mark the readers is for debug > purposes. Murphy being who he is, you will some day need to check > for someone calling the "OK to update" function while they are > acting as a reader. Correct. In one of the previous mails i suggested a debug mode that switches it all to pthread rwlocks. We do not want to lose the identify of what the read paths are: this could grow into a BKL-alike nasty-to-fix assumption over a couple of years! Then if someone finds a usecase that intensifies the frequency of one of the key writepaths, we'll be in trouble ... Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
