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From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:03 -0500
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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>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
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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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