From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:02:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [KJ] [RFC] TODO file cleanups Message-Id: <20050120170236.GB3174@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============18720879333264806==" List-Id: References: <20050117231123.GC19162@nd47.coderock.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117231123.GC19162@nd47.coderock.org> To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============18720879333264806== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:06:19AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Michael> By the way, I was looking at using RCU to reduce locking, > Michael> also for thing like poll_cq. What do you say to that? > > Unless it's a dramatic speedup, we should avoid RCU because it seems > RCU can only be used with GPL code, not dual GPL/BSD. "dual GPL/BSD" means you can choose whether you want to use the code under the GPL or under a BSD licence. Therefore, it's simply GPL code. And even in the other case, the 3-clause BSD licence is compatible with the GPL. > - Roland cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --===============18720879333264806== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============18720879333264806==--