From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
ego@in.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>, Ted Tso <tytso@us.ibm.com>,
dvhltc@us.ibm.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bunk@kernel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:00:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305190027.GE8728@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803050305210.2723@scrub.home>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:06:32AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > > > - bool "Classic RCU"
> > > > + def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
> > > > help
> > > > This option selects the classic RCU implementation that is
> > > > designed for best read-side performance on non-realtime
> > > > - systems.
> > > > -
> > > > - Say Y if you are unsure.
> > > > -
> > >
> > > You can get rid of the "help" part since it isn't visible to users.
> >
> > So how about if I replace it with comment lines (starting with "#",
> > not with "comment")?
>
> Actually xconfig can display this text, so using the help like this is
> fine.
Cool, I will stick with the "help" clause, then.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 17:03 [RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 17:14 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] Preempt-RCU: Use softirq instead of tasklets for RCU Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] Preempt-RCU: Reorganize RCU code into rcuclassic.c and rcupdate.c Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-14 14:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2007-12-14 16:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-12-13 17:16 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] Preempt-RCU: Fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 17:16 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] Preempt-RCU: Implementation Gautham R Shenoy
2008-02-29 4:34 ` Roman Zippel
2008-02-29 4:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-02-29 12:38 ` Roman Zippel
2008-02-29 13:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-01 19:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-03-01 21:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-02 3:09 ` Roman Zippel
2008-03-02 3:06 ` Roman Zippel
2008-03-03 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-03-04 20:22 ` [PATCH] move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT Paul E. McKenney
2008-03-04 20:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-05 0:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-03-05 2:06 ` Roman Zippel
2008-03-05 19:00 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2008-03-04 20:49 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] Preempt-RCU: Implementation Roman Zippel
2008-02-29 13:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-02-29 14:31 ` Roman Zippel
2007-12-13 17:17 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handling Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 17:18 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] Preempt-RCU: Update RCU Documentation Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 21:06 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 17:36 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU Steven Rostedt
2007-12-13 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-12-13 21:09 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-12-13 20:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 23:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
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