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@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@ high efficiency and minimal disturbance, expedited grace periods accept
lower efficiency and significant disturbance to attain shorter latencies.
<p>
-There are three flavors of RCU (RCU-bh, RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched),
-but only two flavors of expedited grace periods because the RCU-bh
-expedited grace period maps onto the RCU-sched expedited grace period.
-Each of the remaining two implementations is covered in its own section.
+There are two flavors of RCU (RCU-preempt and RCU-sched), with an earlier
+third RCU-bh flavor having been implemented in terms of the other two.
+Each of the two implementations is covered in its own section.
<ol>
<li> <a href="#Expedited Grace Period Design">
@@ -158,12 +157,12 @@ whether or not the current CPU is in an RCU read-side critical section.
The best that <tt>sync_sched_exp_handler()</tt> can do is to check
for idle, on the off-chance that the CPU went idle while the IPI
was in flight.
-If the CPU is idle, then tt>sync_sched_exp_handler()</tt> reports
+If the CPU is idle, then <tt>sync_sched_exp_handler()</tt> reports
the quiescent state.
-<p>
-Otherwise, the handler invokes <tt>resched_cpu()</tt>, which forces
-a future context switch.
+<p> Otherwise, the handler forces a future context switch by setting the
+NEED_RESCHED flag of the current task's thread flag and the CPU preempt
+counter.
At the time of the context switch, the CPU reports the quiescent state.
Should the CPU go offline first, it will report the quiescent state
at that time.