Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753626AbZKLREn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:04:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753370AbZKLREm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:04:42 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:33366 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753314AbZKLREl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:04:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:04:10 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: William Allen Simpson Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned Message-ID: <20091112090410.43f90569@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> References: <4AF9C540.5090403@gmail.com> <20091110180646.2e5859a8@nehalam> <4AFAEF78.4080807@gmail.com> <20091111093724.4f40a48d@nehalam> <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 18 On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:06:44 -0500 William Allen Simpson wrote: > + NOTE! We are working hard to remove reader-writer spinlocks from the > + network stack, so please don't add a new one. (Instead, see > + Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt for complete information.) It is not just networking, so don't single that out. Also, should mention -RT kernel and locking here (Appendix?) -- -- 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/