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

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:42:19 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul E McKenney <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Ted Tso <tytso@...ibm.com>, dvhltc@...ibm.com,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bunk@...nel.org,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> 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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