Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 09:05:29 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
        dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
        peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
        dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com,
        patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 26/86] rcu: remove useless ->boosted_this_gp
 field
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On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:21:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
> 
> The ->boosted_this_gp field is a holdover from an earlier design that
> was to carry out multiple boost operations in parallel.  It is not required
> by the current design, which boosts one task at a time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Can you squash this patch into the commit that introduces
boosted_this_gp in the first place?

- Josh Triplett
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