Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:44:24 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:46025 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:44:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.42 To: dipankar@beaverton.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Paul McKenney" Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:47:52 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D03NM045/03/M/IBM(Release 5.0.10 |March 22, 2002) at 10/14/2002 08:49:20 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 20 On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:46:17PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Even if those existing users don't get in yet I don't want to miss the > infrastructure in the 2.6 series. One important thing to note: all of the RCU patches we have constructed have shown benefit. Since we have not been very selective in choosing what patches to generate, it seems a reasonable guess that other parts of Linux would benefit as well. There is no shortage of read-mostly data structures in Linux! Thanx, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/