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Message-ID: <20090406223325.GN6988@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:33:25 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dipankar@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
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	anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] v2: Make TREE_RCU be default (was CLASSIC_RCU).

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:18:34PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 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... :)

I was hoping for .30 -- should I now don my asbestos suit?  ;-)

						Thanx, Paul
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