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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Move irq routing data structure to rcu locking
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:45:07 -0300
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:44:38PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > I don't get it. The point for RCU is to get rid of reader's lock. If
> > > I'll have to take slot_lock on each EOI I achieved nothing.
> > 
> > You already take slots_lock for read on every exit.
> > 
> We should fix that, not add even more users. Shouldn't we?

Yes. Please send both patchsets as one when you resend then, its easier 
to review.