From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935550AbXGLAPT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:15:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936458AbXGLAKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:10:38 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:59911 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936123AbXGLAKe (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:10:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:09:37 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt WIP] NMI-safe lightweight parallel-update -rt RCU Message-ID: <20070712000937.GA1946@elte.hu> References: <20070712000157.GA4168@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070712000157.GA4168@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7-deb -1.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > Just work in progress, not recommended for inclusion. Seems stable > under rigorous rcutorture testing, so should be OK for > experimentation. nice stuff! i'm wondering, could you try to do this as a splitup against -mm? I think we should get people exposed to the idea of RCU_PREEMPT in the upstream kernel a bit more. The netfilter folks promised some preparatory enhancements to make it easier, a few months ago :) Ingo