Re: [RFC, PATCH] state machine based rcu

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:16:17AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > Btw, does STP still exist? I'd like to do some testing on real SMP 
> > hardware. http://stp.testing.osdl.org/ appears to be dead.
> 
> I believe that it has indeed passed on.
> 
> I have occasional access to some 128-CPU machines, but they both
> currently being used for a week-long test sequence, so I won't have
> access to them for some time.  Once they free up, I would be happy to
> run some short (a few hours) tests on them, given a patch stack starting
> from a Linux release (e.g., 2.6.27-rc1).  Given such a patch stack, I
> can simply point the machine at it.  The automated test system doesn't
> yet understand git trees.  :-/

The big long test is over, so if you can send me a patch against some
Linus tree, I will see about testing your code.  Assuming someone else
doesn't jump on the machines first, that is...  :-/

							Thanx, Paul