Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:56:46 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
       tytso@us.ibm.com, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, oleg@tv-sign.ru,
       twoerner.k@gmail.com, josh@freedesktop.org, billh@gnuppy.monkey.org,
       nielsen.esben@googlemail.com, corbet@lwn.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -rt 1/2] RCU priority boosting that survives vicious testing
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:23:33AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here is the RCU priority-boosting patch.  Pretty close to the 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/24/295 version.  This patch prevents 
> > preempted or blocked low-priority RCU readers from indefinitely 
> > stalling RCU grace periods.
> 
> thanks - i've applied both patches to -rt and it's looking good so far! 
> Find a small cosmetic fix below.

Sorry for the %d noise!  :-/

I will send another patch addressing Nigel's freeze_processes()
review comments.

						Thanx, Paul

> 	Ingo
> 
> Index: linux/kernel/rcupreempt.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/kernel/rcupreempt.c
> +++ linux/kernel/rcupreempt.c
> @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ void init_rcu_boost_late(void)
>  	rcu_boost_task = kthread_run(rcu_booster, NULL, "RCU Prio Booster");
>  	if (IS_ERR(rcu_boost_task)) {
>  		printk(KERN_ALERT
> -		       "Unable to create RCU Priority Booster, errno %d\n",
> +		       "Unable to create RCU Priority Booster, errno %ld\n",
>  		       -PTR_ERR(rcu_boost_task));
> 
>  		/*
-
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