On Friday 06 January 2006 11:17, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > I assume that if a CPU queued 10.000 items in its RCU queue, then the > oldest entry cannot still be in use by another CPU. This might sounds as a > violation of RCU rules, (I'm not an RCU expert) but seems quite reasonable.
I don't think it's a good assumption. Another CPU might be stuck in a long running interrupt, and still have a reference in the code running below the interrupt handler. And in general letting correctness depend on magic numbers like this is very nasty. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
