From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751240AbWIYQzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:55:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbWIYQzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:55:04 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:457 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751240AbWIYQzD (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:55:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:54:33 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul E McKenney , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH 1/4] RCU: split classic rcu Message-ID: <20060925165433.GA28898@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Dipankar Sarma , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul E McKenney , Ingo Molnar References: <20060923152957.GA13432@in.ibm.com> <20060923153141.GB13432@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060923153141.GB13432@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:01:41PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations > of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the > RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for > subsequently merging the preepmtpible RCU implementation. I still disagree very strongly. In a given tree there should be oneRCU implementation for the traditional interface. We probably want srcu in addition, but not things hiding behind the interface.