From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt WIP] NMI-safe lightweight parallel-update -rt RCU Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:30:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20070712003011.GF14550@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20070712000157.GA4168@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070712000937.GA1946@elte.hu> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:60216 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964952AbXGLAaQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:30:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712000937.GA1946@elte.hu> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:09:37AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > Just work in progress, not recommended for inclusion. Seems stable > > under rigorous rcutorture testing, so should be OK for > > experimentation. > > nice stuff! > > i'm wondering, could you try to do this as a splitup against -mm? I > think we should get people exposed to the idea of RCU_PREEMPT in the > upstream kernel a bit more. The netfilter folks promised some > preparatory enhancements to make it easier, a few months ago :) Good point! Besides, I might as well test out my assertion that I have made integration with CPU hotplug easier, being as that was one of the reasons that it got kicked out earlier this year, IIRC. ;-) Thanx, Paul