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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
	manfred@colorfullife.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	lethal@linux-sh.org, kernel@wantstofly.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	kyle@mcmartin.ca, deller@gmx.de, davem@davemloft.net,
	ralf@linux-mips.org, jes@sgi.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU.
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:31:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090404163149.GC6893@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0904040621g7b89cd2cq9681ce80635a65c4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Why would one want to do this?  The commit log doesn't explain the
> switch and why it's great.  Mostly because the commit log doesn't
> exist.  (I'll stop channeling Andrew now)

Indeed, I am sure that I will get the hang the relevant git commands
at some point, but clearly am not yet there.

The thing that is great about this patch is that it is a step on
the way to retiring Classic RCU entirely.

> It also might be a good idea to CC the linuxppc-dev list for this
> patch.  Or at least Kumar for the mpc86xx changes.

Good point -- I will do so on the next version.

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-04 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3181463559098978317@unknownmsgid>
2009-04-04 13:21 ` [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU Josh Boyer
2009-04-04 16:31   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-04-05 10:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-05 10:37       ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-05 16:49         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-05 17:01           ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-05 17:15             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-05 16:44       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-08 12:46         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-08 17:48           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-08 18:10             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-08 18:27               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-04  0:27 [PATCH -tip] Make TREE_RCU be default (was CLASSIC_RCU) Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-04  0:27 ` [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU Paul E. McKenney

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