From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753653Ab1EAXtR (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 19:49:17 -0400 Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.129]:3444 "EHLO ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752270Ab1EAXtQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 19:49:16 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhMEAAvuvU15LHHJgWdsb2JhbACmGxUBARYmJYhxuEcOhXIEnS0 Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:49:11 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@lnaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] Preview of RCU patches for 2.6.40 Message-ID: <20110501234911.GI13542@dastard> References: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:21:42AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > This patchset introduces RCU_TREE priority boosting, a new "fire and > forget" kfree_rcu() API, numerous uses of kfree_rcu(), plus a number > of other fixes and improvements. The patches are as follows: ..... > 34-70. Use kfree_rcu() throughout the kernel. This set of patches has > Acked-by's, so will go up -tip. > > 71-86. Ditto, but lacking Acked-by's. Any reason why dentry and inode freeing was not converted in this series? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com