linux-kernel - Re: Isolated expedited RCU code to a new tree

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Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:08:33 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, josh@...htriplett.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	jiangshanlai@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Isolated expedited RCU code to a new tree_exp.h

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:52:02PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello, Frederic,
> 
> One thing that I have had on my list for some time is to rearrange the
> RCU source code to make it easier to find things.  Given our discussion
> yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take that step with the
> expedited grace-period code.  I have a couple of commits doing this in
> -rcu, and would like your opinion.  Worthwhile, or should I revert those
> two commits?

It's definetly worth having a look! And it might help me eventually understand
that expedited grace period thing :-)

Thanks!