Re: [PATCH] 3/4 qrcu: add documentation

From: Tomas Carnecky
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 04:11:18 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> index f4dffad..36d6185 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> @@ -259,3 +259,16 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
>
> Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() relate to
> SRCU just as they do to other forms of RCU.
> +
> +14. QRCU is very similar to SRCU, but features very fast grace-period
> + processing at the expense of heavier-weight read-side operations.
> + The correspondance between QRCU and SRCU is as follows:
> +
> + QRCU SRCU
> +
> + struct qrcu_struct struct srcu_struct
> + init_qrcu_struct() init_srcu_struct()
> + cleanup_qrcu_struct() cleanup_srcu_struct()
> + qrcu_read_lock() srcu_read_lock()
> + qrcu_read-unlock() srcu_read_unlock()

A small typo: qrcu_read_unlock()

tom
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