linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC rcu 03/19] srcu: Begin offloading srcu_struct fields to srcu

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Date:   Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:29:36 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...a.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC rcu 03/19] srcu: Begin offloading srcu_struct fields
 to srcu_update

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:18:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 01:11:47PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > 
> > Thank you!  I will add this on my next rebase.
> > 
> > It is possible that this will be v6.5 rather than v6.4 material.
> 
> I was hoping the RCU bits could land in 6.4, so that the block
> layer work to take advantage of it can go into 6.5 without cross-tree
> dependencies.

Indeed, that patch series does hit a large chunk of SRCU, so my usual
offer of just giving you the patches is likely to run into trouble.

I will see what we can do about v6.4.

							Thanx, Paul