Re: [PATCH 0/4] RCU: various merge candidates

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:38:45 +0530
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patchset consists of various merge candidates that would
> do well to have some testing in -mm. This patchset breaks
> out RCU implementation from its APIs to allow multiple
> implementations, gives RCU its own softirq and finally
> lines up preemptible RCU from -rt tree as a configurable
> RCU implementation for mainline.
> 
> All comments and testing is welcome. RFC at the moment, but
> I can later submit patches against -mm, Andrew, if you want.
> They have been tested lightly using dbench, kernbench and ltp
> (both CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y and n) on x86 and ppc64.

ouch.

akpm:/usr/src/25> grep rcu series
radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch
adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-update.patch
radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-semicolon.patch
adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-update-tidy.patch
adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-fix-2.patch
adix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside-fix-3.patch
rcu-add-lock-annotations-to-rcu_bh_torture_read_lockunlock.patch
srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking.patch
srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-fix.patch
srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations.patch
srcu-3-add-srcu-operations-to-rcutorture.patch
srcu-3-add-srcu-operations-to-rcutorture-fix.patch
add-srcu-based-notifier-chains.patch
add-srcu-based-notifier-chains-cleanup.patch
srcu-report-out-of-memory-errors.patch
srcu-report-out-of-memory-errors-fixlet.patch
cpufreq-make-the-transition_notifier-chain-use-srcu.patch
rcu-add-module_author-to-rcutorture-module.patch
rcu-fix-incorrect-description-of-default-for-rcutorture.patch
rcu-mention-rcu_bh-in-description-of-rcutortures.patch
rcu-avoid-kthread_stop-on-invalid-pointer-if-rcutorture.patch
rcu-fix-sign-bug-making-rcu_random-always-return-the-same.patch
rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture.patch
rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture-tidy.patch

Now what?