Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965339AbZLQTIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965311AbZLQTIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:11 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:43158 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965302AbZLQTII (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:08:04 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , cl@linux-foundation.org, "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , minchan.kim@gmail.com Subject: Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates. Message-ID: <20091217190804.GB6788@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20091216101107.GA15031@basil.fritz.box> <20091216191312.f4655dac.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091216102806.GC15031@basil.fritz.box> <20091216193109.778b881b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1261004224.21028.500.camel@laptop> <20091217084046.GA9804@basil.fritz.box> <1261039534.27920.67.camel@laptop> <20091217085430.GG9804@basil.fritz.box> <20091217144551.GA6819@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20091217175338.GL9804@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091217175338.GL9804@basil.fritz.box> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 20 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:53:39PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > OK, I have to ask... > > > > Why not just use the already-existing SRCU in this case? > > You right, SRCU could work. > > Still needs a lot more work of course. As discussed with Peter on IRC, I have been idly thinking about how I would implement SRCU if I were starting on it today. If you would like to see some specific improvements to SRCU, telling me about them would greatly increase the probability of my doing something about them. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- 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/