RCU: Preemptible-RCU [LWN.net]

From:		Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
To:		linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject:		[RFC PATCH 0/6] RCU: Preemptible-RCU
Date:		Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:33:49 +0530
Message-ID:		<20071213170348.GA25981@in.ibm.com>
Cc:		Paul E McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>, Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>, Ted Tso <tytso@us.ibm.com>, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, bunk@kernel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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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:
====================================================================
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.
-- 
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
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