Re: [PATCH 01/12] target: Convert se_node_acl->device_list[] to RCU hlist

Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13T05:32:36Z

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:08:51PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> The series is bisectable. With patch #1 in place ->device_list[] is
> still kzalloc()'ed, but new RCU pointer assignments are made into
> lun_entry_hlist[].
>
> Squashing the RCU reader paths (#2-6) for merge is OK, but it's still
> nice to break up reader / updater changes into separate patches.

Having the full data structure switch over in one patch really makes
reviewing and understning the change a lot easier. But changes to
say move to a mutex should indeed stay separate. So patches 1-6
really should be mostly one.