RCU: various merge candidates [LWN.net]

From:		Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To:		linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:		[PATCH 0/4] RCU: various merge candidates
Date:		Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:38:45 +0530
Cc:		Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

This patchset consists of various merge candidates that would
do well to have some testing in -mm. This patchset breaks
out RCU implementation from its APIs to allow multiple
implementations, gives RCU its own softirq and finally
lines up preemptible RCU from -rt tree as a configurable
RCU implementation for mainline.

All comments and testing is welcome. RFC at the moment, but
I can later submit patches against -mm, Andrew, if you want.
They have been tested lightly using dbench, kernbench and ltp
(both CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y and n) on x86 and ppc64.

Thanks
Dipankar