From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755825AbZDDQcJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:32:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754346AbZDDQb4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:31:56 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:36688 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754262AbZDDQbz (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:31:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:31:49 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Josh Boyer 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. Message-ID: <20090404163149.GC6893@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <3181463559098978317@unknownmsgid> <625fc13d0904040621g7b89cd2cq9681ce80635a65c4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0904040621g7b89cd2cq9681ce80635a65c4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > wrote: > > From: Paul E. McKenney > > 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