Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751360AbWH1TGZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751350AbWH1TGY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:14743 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751347AbWH1TGX (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Paul E McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] RCU: various merge candidates Message-Id: <20060828120611.afad8b0f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060828160845.GB3325@in.ibm.com> References: <20060828160845.GB3325@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2188 Lines: 49 On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:38:45 +0530 Dipankar Sarma wrote: > This patchset consists of various merge candidates that would > do well to have some testing in -mm. This patchset breaks > out RCU implementation from its APIs to allow multiple > implementations, gives RCU its own softirq and finally > lines up preemptible RCU from -rt tree as a configurable > RCU implementation for mainline. > > All comments and testing is welcome. RFC at the moment, but > I can later submit patches against -mm, Andrew, if you want. > They have been tested lightly using dbench, kernbench and ltp > (both CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y and n) on x86 and ppc64. ouch. akpm:/usr/src/25> grep rcu series radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-update.patch radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-semicolon.patch adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-update-tidy.patch adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-fix-2.patch adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-fix-3.patch rcu-add-lock-annotations-to-rcu_bh_torture_read_lockunlock.patch srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking.patch srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-fix.patch srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations.patch srcu-3-add-srcu-operations-to-rcutorture.patch srcu-3-add-srcu-operations-to-rcutorture-fix.patch add-srcu-based-notifier-chains.patch add-srcu-based-notifier-chains-cleanup.patch srcu-report-out-of-memory-errors.patch srcu-report-out-of-memory-errors-fixlet.patch cpufreq-make-the-transition_notifier-chain-use-srcu.patch rcu-add-module_author-to-rcutorture-module.patch rcu-fix-incorrect-description-of-default-for-rcutorture.patch rcu-mention-rcu_bh-in-description-of-rcutortures.patch rcu-avoid-kthread_stop-on-invalid-pointer-if-rcutorture.patch rcu-fix-sign-bug-making-rcu_random-always-return-the-same.patch rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture.patch rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture-tidy.patch Now what? - 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/