Re: [GIT PULL rcu/urgent] Banishing kthreads

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jun 18 2011 - 15:48:45 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, Ingo,
>
> This pull request banishes RCU kthreads in the RCU_BOOST=n case,
> in response to popular demand. There are two commits in this
> series:
>
> 1. Minimal patch that #ifdefs out the kthread code.
>
> 2. Code-movement patch that puts the code #ifdefed out above
> under existing #ifdefs in kernel/rcutree_plugin.h.
>
> These changes are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git rcu/urgent
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------>
>
> Paul E. McKenney (1):
> rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
>
> Shaohua Li (1):
> rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
>
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 +
> include/linux/interrupt.h | 1 +
> include/trace/events/irq.h | 3 +-
> kernel/rcutree.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
> kernel/rcutree.h | 1 +
> kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 20 ++++----
> kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c | 1 +
> 8 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Paul!

Ingo
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