RFC RCU: Preemptible-RCU

Gautham R Shenoy linux-rt-users lkml 1 version Dec 13, 2007 In review

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#	Subject and files	Size	Replies
1/6	Preempt-RCU: Use softirq instead of tasklets for RCU`include/linux/interrupt.h` `kernel/rcupdate.c`	+18 -8	0 replies
2/6	Preempt-RCU: Reorganize RCU code into rcuclassic.c and rcupdate.c`include/linux/rcuclassic.h` `include/linux/rcupdate.h` `kernel/Makefile` +2 more	+812 ~~-670~~	2 replies
3/6	Preempt-RCU: Fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment`kernel/rcuclassic.c` `kernel/rcupdate.c`	+11 -1	0 replies
4/6	Preempt-RCU: Implementation`include/linux/rcuclassic.h` `include/linux/rcupdate.h` `include/linux/rcupreempt.h` +8 more	+1394 -6	17 replies
5/6	Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handling`kernel/rcupreempt.c`	+142 -5	0 replies
6/6	Preempt-RCU: Update RCU Documentation.`Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt` `Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt` `Documentation/RCU/torture.txt`	+221 ~~-19~~	2 replies

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Cover letter [RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU

Hello everyone,

This patchset is an updated version of the preemptible RCU patchset that Paul McKenney had posted it in September earlier this year that can be found here --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/10/213

This patchset incorporates the review comments from Oleg Nesterov and Steven Rostedt.

The testing report of the patchset is as follows:
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Patch-stack: 2.6.23-rc3 + cpu-hotplug patches from

		http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/15/239 + Preempt-RCU
		patches.

Test: RCU-Torture running parallelly with CPU-Hotplug
operations.
Duration: 24 hours.
Architectures: x86,x86_64, ppc64.
====================================================================

Currently it is based against the latest linux-2.6-sched-devel.git

Awaiting your feedback!

Thanks and Regards
gautham.

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Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
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