From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:12:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:11:58 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:48923 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:11:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:12:38 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Maneesh Soni Cc: LKML Subject: Re: 2.4.10pre7aa1 Message-ID: <20010911131238.N715@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010911150946.A14621@sequent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010911150946.A14621@sequent.com>; from smaneesh@sequent.com on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0530 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > In article <20010910200344.C714@athlon.random> you wrote: > > Long term of course, but with my further changes before the inclusion > > the plain current patches shouldn't apply any longer, I'd like if the > > developers of the current rcu fd patches could check my changes and > > adapt them (if they agree with my changes of course ;). > > Hello Andrea, > > I have noted your changes and I am modifying the FD patch accordingly. In fact > in the first version of FD patch I have used the rc_callback() interface which > equivalent to call_rcu(). many thanks. At the moment my biggest concern is about the need of call_rcu not to be starved by RT threads (keventd can be starved so then it won't matter if krcud is RT because we won't start using it). But I don't have concerns about the API so those issues will be transparent to the FD patch. Andrea