Re: v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 / new project URL

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 12:15:45 EST


On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 08:18 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:35 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > - simple_irq change (Kevin Hilman): needs more thought
> > > - RCU updates (Paul McKenney): needs proper integration
> > > - latency tracer changes (Daniel Walker): needs review
> > > - PICK_OP changes (Daniel Walker): needs review
> >
> > This one seems to have slipped through the cracks:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/16/135
>
> There was a comment in this patch that reads,
>
> + /*
> + * all modifications are done under spinlocks
> + * but this read is not, the unlock acks as a wmb
> + * for modifications.
> + */
>
> I you mean "acts" (like an actor) instead of "acks" here right?

ah, indeed :-) sometimes my fingers have a life of their own.

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