From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758333AbYG3BS0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:18:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753586AbYG3BSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:18:17 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:35677 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753358AbYG3BSQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <488FC0AB.8010805@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:15:23 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Paul E McKenney , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: implement rcu_read_[un]lock_preempt() References: <487AEAC6.60307@kernel.org> <1216188469.5232.0.camel@twins> <487D98AC.3020005@kernel.org> <1217258001.18049.7.camel@twins> <488E76A2.9050804@kernel.org> <1217312129.18049.44.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1217312129.18049.44.camel@twins> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Therefore we prefer APIs such as, get_cpu() etc.. that show intent and > don;t like stuff you just now proposed of mixing intents. Because when > changing the preemption model you might need different solution for > different intents. Alright, will convert to get_cpu(). Thanks for the explanation. -- tejun