Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:28:55 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       vatsa@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:40:39AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:48:02PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
> >>are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
> >>rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
> >>the parameter list.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Looks good to me, passes one-hour RCU torture test.
> >
> >Manfred, does the ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp take care
> >of your cache-line alignment concerns?
>
> Yes.

Sounds good, we should be set on this one then!

							Thanx, Paul
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