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On 2023-11-21 11:07, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:00:13 -0500
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> 
>>> tasks-tracing-rcu:
>>>     extention of tasks to have critical-sections ? Should this simply be
>>>     tasks?
>>
>> tasks-trace-rcu is meant to allow tasks to block/take a page fault
>> within the read-side. It is specialized for tracing and has a single
>> domain. It does not need the smp_mb on the read-side, which makes it
>> lower-overhead than SRCU.
> 
> IOW, task-trace-rcu allows the call to schedule in its critical section,
> whereas task-rcu does not?

Correct.

And unlike preemptible rcu, tasks-trace-rcu allows calls to schedule 
which do not provide priority inheritance guarantees (such as I/O 
triggered by page faults).

Thanks,

Mathieu

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