Re: [PATCH fyi] RCU: the bloatwatch edition

Ingo Molnar
2009-01-14T19:10:57Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI, not for inclusion.
> >
> > This patch is a version of RCU designed for !CONFIG_SMP provided as a
> > proof of concept of a small-footprint RCU implementation. In
> > particular, the implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely
> > lightweight and high performance. It passes moderate rcutorture testing
> > in each of the four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and
> > PREEMPT) on x86.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> maybe it could be included - dependent on PREEMPT, just like we have SLOB?

s/PREEMPT/EMBEDDED

Ingo