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Message-ID: <20090114191035.GA17521@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:10:35 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
niv@...ibm.com, dvhltc@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH fyi] RCU: the bloatwatch edition
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI, not for inclusion.
> >
> > This patch is a version of RCU designed for !CONFIG_SMP provided as a
> > proof of concept of a small-footprint RCU implementation. In
> > particular, the implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely
> > lightweight and high performance. It passes moderate rcutorture testing
> > in each of the four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and
> > PREEMPT) on x86.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> maybe it could be included - dependent on PREEMPT, just like we have SLOB?
s/PREEMPT/EMBEDDED
Ingo
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