From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754001Ab1JQB4D (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:56:03 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:51563 "EHLO relay4-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753411Ab1JQB4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:56:01 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 217.70.178.145 X-Originating-IP: 50.43.15.19 Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:55:42 -0700 From: Josh Triplett 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, 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, Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 44/55] rcu: wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree Message-ID: <20111017015542.GH19421@leaf> References: <20110906180015.GA2560@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1315332049-2604-44-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1315332049-2604-44-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:00:38AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > RCU boost threads start life at RCU_BOOST_PRIO, while others remain > at RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO. While here, change thread names to match other > kthreads, and adjust rcu_yield() to not override the priority set by > the user. This last change sets the stage for runtime changes to > priority in the -rt tree. This seems like either two or three independent changes, which should go in separate commits. You could plausibly group the rcu_yield changes together with the rest, but the thread naming seems like a separate commit. - Josh Triplett