From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
manfred@colorfullife.com, peterz@infradead.org,
lethal@linux-sh.org, kernel@wantstofly.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
kyle@mcmartin.ca, deller@gmx.de, davem@davemloft.net,
ralf@linux-mips.org, jes@sgi.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU.
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:31:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090404163149.GC6893@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0904040621g7b89cd2cq9681ce80635a65c4@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Why would one want to do this? The commit log doesn't explain the
> switch and why it's great. Mostly because the commit log doesn't
> exist. (I'll stop channeling Andrew now)
Indeed, I am sure that I will get the hang the relevant git commands
at some point, but clearly am not yet there.
The thing that is great about this patch is that it is a step on
the way to retiring Classic RCU entirely.
> It also might be a good idea to CC the linuxppc-dev list for this
> patch. Or at least Kumar for the mpc86xx changes.
Good point -- I will do so on the next version.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-04 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-04-04 13:21 ` [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU Josh Boyer
2009-04-04 16:31 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-04-05 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-05 10:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-05 16:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-05 17:01 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-05 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-05 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-08 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-08 17:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-08 18:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-08 18:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-04 0:27 [PATCH -tip] Make TREE_RCU be default (was CLASSIC_RCU) Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-04 0:27 ` [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU Paul E. McKenney
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