Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 15:43:50 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
>
> >
> > Currently it is based against the latest linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
> >
> > Awaiting your feedback!
>
> Hi Gautham,
>
> Thanks for posting this. I believe this is the same version of preempt
> RCU as we have in the RT patch. It seems to be very stable. I ran the
> RT patch version of the RCU Preempt (just the Preempt RCU patches
> without RT on latest git) on a 64way box and the results seems just as
> good (if not slightly better) than classic RCU! I'll rerun this patch
> series on that box and post the results.
>
> >From what I'm seening with this, is that it is ready for mainline.
> >These
> patches should probably go into -mm and be ready for 2.6.25. If Andrew
> wants to wait for my results, I'll run them tonight.
>
> Thanks Gautham, Paul and Dipankar for all this great work!

Steve, if you went with a fine comb over the code and have done a
thorough review, could you send me your Reviewed-by line for this
patchset?

Ingo
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