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From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFC5E3F.7070609@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFBEC44.9030409@gmail.com>

William Allen Simpson wrote:
> In recent weeks, two different network projects erroneously
> strayed down the rw_lock path.  Update the Documentation
> based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in
> those threads.
> 
> Merged with editorial changes by Stephen Hemminger.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/spinlocks.txt |  186 
> ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
> 

How up to date is this doc?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/index.html

Should it be in the Documentation directory?


-- 

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deserve neither liberty nor safety."  (Ben Franklin)

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases."  (Thomas Jefferson)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-12 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 19:55 [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned William Allen Simpson
2009-11-10 21:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-11  2:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 17:08   ` William Allen Simpson
2009-11-11 17:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 11:06       ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-11-12 15:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-12 17:04         ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 19:13         ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2009-11-12 23:00           ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13  8:59             ` Stefan Richter
2009-11-13 16:15               ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 17:01         ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 21:07           ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-12 10:36             ` William Allen Simpson

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