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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:41:53 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 tip/core/rcu 14/22] rcu-tasks: Add an RCU Tasks
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 08:48:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:28:13 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Good point.  If interrupts are disabled, it will need to use some
> > other mechanism.  One approach is irqwork.  Another is a timer.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> Ftrace and perf use irq_work, I would think that should work here too.

Sounds good, will give it a go!  And thank you for catching this!

							Thans, Paul