Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty withtype/macro safety

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 19:10:55 EST


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:57:38 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:52:45 -0800
>
> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:37:44 -0800
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Well, in this case there is a choice, either you use one routing
> lookup datastructure or the other. It's not purposefully being hidden
> from the everything builds :-)

oic. yes, that is a bit of a problem. Oh well.

`make randconfig' seems to be able to enable CONFIG_IP_FIB_TRIE about one
time in eight ;)

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