Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756202AbZLKRBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755850AbZLKRBP (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:15 -0500 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]:19987 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755838AbZLKRBO (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SBQhU+Wc9nNiqcyKPkgz+S6pMhyZJzasRsBU5pRMId7LzLJ6Jjf+mRSH68TZfla2A/ Xb30ZvuRdYAzDchqEWgzE37kLPkLxcEfgtp/l8Q6qVYguOlLFJXMGVOUN6xLiQ5sePO1 +FTCQYdfGye6+En/WuQI51AWnGwe5pibsMlu0= Message-ID: <4B227ADC.5010908@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:16 -0500 From: William Allen Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Stephen Hemminger , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Eric Dumazet , Stephen Clark , Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned References: <4AF9C540.5090403@gmail.com> <20091110180646.2e5859a8@nehalam> <4AFAEF78.4080807@gmail.com> <20091111093724.4f40a48d@nehalam> <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 29 William Allen Simpson wrote: > In recent weeks, two different network projects erroneously > strayed down the rw_lock path. Update the Documentation > based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in > those threads. > > Merged with editorial changes by Stephen Hemminger. > > Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney > A month ago, I'd taken the final line "Ho humm.." of Linus' response to mean he wasn't interested. But at the local discussion yesterday, I'm told that's just a typical Linusism. The thread diverged into discussion of another document entirely. I'm not the person to update this document with any of the other information about global locks and tasklists and such. But surely somebody else could handle that in another patch. Anybody have answers/updates to Linus's concerns about "pretty old and bogus language"? Would folks be interested in the update? Does anybody know which list(s) would be better for discussion? -- 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/