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

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:30:12 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dipankar@...ibm.com, josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt WIP] NMI-safe lightweight parallel-update -rt RCU

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