On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One thought would be to add an "emergency mode" to SRCU similar to that > already in RCU. Something to the effect that if the current list of > callbacks is going to take more than a second to drain at the configured > per-jiffy rate, just process them without waiting. > > Would that help in this case, or am I missing something about the > reproducer? Let's see if we can avoid srcu callbacks entirely as per Jeff, that would be the best option. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html