Re: [PATCH -rt WIP] NMI-safe lightweight parallel-update -rt RCU

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 20:34:19 EST


On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:09:37AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 :)

Good point!

Besides, I might as well test out my assertion that I have made
integration with CPU hotplug easier, being as that was one of the reasons
that it got kicked out earlier this year, IIRC. ;-)

Thanx, Paul
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