netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with type/macro safety

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Message-ID: <20080213155536.5541f798@extreme>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:55:36 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	"stephen.hemminger@...tta.com"@mail.vyatta.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dipankar@...ibm.com, ego@...ibm.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with
 type/macro safety

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:52:45 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:37:44 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ah.  It does take a bit to get fib_trie into one's build -- allyesconfig
> > doesn't cut it.
> 
> This is not good.  The sole purpose of allmodconfig and allyesconfig is for
> compilation and linkage coverage testing.  Hence we should aim to get as
> much code as possible included in those cases.
> 

The current model is compile time choice. It is on my long term list
to make this a runtime option.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>
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