Re: [PATCH RFC v3 03/13] rcu-tasks: Add a Tasks RCU implementation for reader-marked trampolines
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 15:42:39 EST
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 08:45:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Le Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 08:40:10AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
> > > > Trampolines that transfer control to tracing code could supply the needed
> > > > cleanup call. But last I checked, there were trampolines that transferred
> > > > directly back to the original code, with no opportunity for cleaning up.
> > > >
> > > > Or am I still missing a trick here?
> > >
> > > You're right. So we'll indeed need to reuse the deferred qs points here.
> >
> > Except this is getting a bit involved.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, if Josef is happy to take this on, far be it from me
> > to stand in his way. But if not, we should be willing to treat this
> > optimization as a follow-on effort, whether by Josef or someone else.
>
> Sure, I guess I can try the follow-on, especially if it leads to removing
> all this RCU tasks black magic.
That sounds most excellent, thank you!
Thanx, Paul