From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814D86B0044 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (d01relay06.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.116]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nBHIuWxR009794 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:56:32 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id nBHJ86AR946298 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:06 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id nBHJ84Uj004502 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:08:04 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates. Message-ID: <20091217190804.GB6788@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20091216101107.GA15031@basil.fritz.box> <20091216191312.f4655dac.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091216102806.GC15031@basil.fritz.box> <20091216193109.778b881b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1261004224.21028.500.camel@laptop> <20091217084046.GA9804@basil.fritz.box> <1261039534.27920.67.camel@laptop> <20091217085430.GG9804@basil.fritz.box> <20091217144551.GA6819@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20091217175338.GL9804@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091217175338.GL9804@basil.fritz.box> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , cl@linux-foundation.org, "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , minchan.kim@gmail.com List-ID: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:53:39PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > OK, I have to ask... > > > > Why not just use the already-existing SRCU in this case? > > You right, SRCU could work. > > Still needs a lot more work of course. As discussed with Peter on IRC, I have been idly thinking about how I would implement SRCU if I were starting on it today. If you would like to see some specific improvements to SRCU, telling me about them would greatly increase the probability of my doing something about them. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org