Re: [GIT PULL rcu/urgent] Banishing kthreads

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:57:23AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello, Ingo,
> 
> This pull request banishes RCU kthreads in the RCU_BOOST=n case,
> in response to popular demand.  There are two commits in this
> series:
> 
> 1.	Minimal patch that #ifdefs out the kthread code.
> 
> 2.	Code-movement patch that puts the code #ifdefed out above
> 	under existing #ifdefs in kernel/rcutree_plugin.h.
> 
> These changes are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git rcu/urgent

This time with the correct request-pull info.  :-/

 							Thanx, Paul


------------------->

Paul E. McKenney (2):
      rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
      rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file

 kernel/rcutree.c        |  382 ++-----------------------------------------
 kernel/rcutree.h        |   13 ++-
 kernel/rcutree_plugin.h |  419 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/rcutree_trace.c  |   32 +++-
 4 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 390 deletions(-)