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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:48:41 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] rcu/exp: Remove full barrier upon main thread wakeup
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Le Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:47:16PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker a ?crit :
> Le Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:23:39PM -0800, Boqun Feng a ?crit :
> > From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> > 
> > When an expedited grace period is ending, care must be taken so that all
> > the quiescent states propagated up to the root are correctly ordered
> > against the wake up of the main expedited grace period workqueue.
> > 
> > This ordering is already carried through the root rnp locking augmented
> > by an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() barrier.
> > 
> > Therefore the explicit smp_mb() placed before the wake up is not needed
> > and can be removed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> 
> [Offlist]

And yes that was not offlist, my fingers betrayed me!

> 
> For further posting, don't forget to add your own SoB while posting patches :-)
> 
> Thanks!
>