Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932325AbZLNRuf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932271AbZLNRue (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:34 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:54369 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932264AbZLNRud (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:50:06 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: William Allen Simpson Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jarek Poplawski , Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Developers , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Eric Dumazet , Stephen Clark , Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned Message-ID: <20091214095006.5cfc57a0@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <4B254ABE.9040002@gmail.com> References: <4B254ABE.9040002@gmail.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.18.3; 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: 1128 Lines: 28 On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:12:46 -0500 William Allen Simpson wrote: > In recent months, 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. > > Further updates await somebody else with more expertise. > > Changes: > - Merged with extensive content by Stephen Hemminger. > - Fix one of the comments by Linus Torvalds. > > Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney > --- > Documentation/spinlocks.txt | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > 1 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-) The whole document needs a writer to go over it and make it readable. Something like an updated chapter on locking from LDD3 book. John? Randy? -- 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/