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Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:18:34 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
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	kyle@...artin.ca, deller@....de, davem@...emloft.net,
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	paulus@...ba.org, anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] v2: Make TREE_RCU be default (was CLASSIC_RCU).

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:16:28PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Given that there have been no TREE_RCU bugs reported for some months,
> it is time to make TREE_RCU be the default RCU implementation.  The rest
> of this series updates defconfig files that: (1) have CONFIG_SMP=y and
> (2) explicitly mention CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU.
> 
> Given that I don't have access to most of the relevant hardware, much
> of this is untested.
> 
> Changes since v1: per-arch defconfig patches dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 

Do you intend to do this for .30 or .31? I'll try to test it as
soon as I can on parisc... Somehow I suspect it won't be the worst
of the problems... :)

regards, Kyle
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