Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752428AbcDQCei (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:34:38 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:55796 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752288AbcDQCeh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:34:37 -0400 X-IBM-Helo: d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:34:57 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, rostedt , Lai Jiangshan , mingo@redhat.com Subject: Re: Isolated expedited RCU code to a new tree_exp.h Message-ID: <20160417023457.GI3687@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20160415235202.GA26940@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160416130831.GA29917@lerouge> <1388559142.60584.1460820549723.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1388559142.60584.1460820549723.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16041702-0013-0000-0000-00002B8F2030 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1071 Lines: 26 On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 03:29:09PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > ----- On Apr 16, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:52:02PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > >> Hello, Frederic, > >> > >> One thing that I have had on my list for some time is to rearrange the > >> RCU source code to make it easier to find things. Given our discussion > >> yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take that step with the > >> expedited grace-period code. I have a couple of commits doing this in > >> -rcu, and would like your opinion. Worthwhile, or should I revert those > >> two commits? > > > > It's definetly worth having a look! And it might help me eventually understand > > that expedited grace period thing :-) And for me to document it. ;-) > Moving the expedited handling into its own files indeed > seems to better organize the sub-parts of RCU. That seems > like a good idea. Sounds good, will give it a try. If it works well, I might do the same for other sub-parts of RCU. Thanx, Paul