linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.12

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFz-sqZajDFK_EB9yoJVxmr4iTzGM67dHsa22-7bRE9DNw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 May 2017 21:11:05 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.12

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I will get rid of the unused rcu_segcblist_extract_all() function
> and create a kernel/rcu/segcblist.c for the functions that are either
> non-trivial or performance-insensitive.
>
> Does that cover it, or am I missing something?

That's the part I reacted to while reading through the patch, and your
suggested fix sounds good to me.

                     Linus