Re: [PATCH] v3 RCU: the bloatwatch edition

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 20:03:25 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:44:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:36:05 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Andrew, what do you think?
>
> I'm really struggling to see how the 900-odd bytes saved justifies
> creating (yet another) variant of core kernel machinery.
>
> > A worry is yet another RCU variant - we already have 3.
>
> That would make four?

Three, once treercu is deemed stable enough to permit dropping Classic RCU.

Thanx, Paul
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