From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756795Ab1EBIem (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2011 04:34:42 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:33988 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753920Ab1EBIel (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2011 04:34:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 01:34:34 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Josh Triplett 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, 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@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 26/86] rcu: remove useless ->boosted_this_gp field Message-ID: <20110502083434.GA2297@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1304256126-26015-26-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110501160529.GI14829@feather> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110501160529.GI14829@feather> 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 09:05:29AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:21:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > From: Paul E. McKenney > > > > The ->boosted_this_gp field is a holdover from an earlier design that > > was to carry out multiple boost operations in parallel. It is not required > > by the current design, which boosts one task at a time. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > > Can you squash this patch into the commit that introduces > boosted_this_gp in the first place? Unfortunately, no. That commit is already in mainline. Thanx, Paul