Re: Isolated expedited RCU code to a new tree_exp.h

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Apr 16 2016 - 22:34:41 EST


On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 03:29:09PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Apr 16, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:52:02PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> Hello, Frederic,
> >>
> >> One thing that I have had on my list for some time is to rearrange the
> >> RCU source code to make it easier to find things. Given our discussion
> >> yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take that step with the
> >> expedited grace-period code. I have a couple of commits doing this in
> >> -rcu, and would like your opinion. Worthwhile, or should I revert those
> >> two commits?
> >
> > It's definetly worth having a look! And it might help me eventually understand
> > that expedited grace period thing :-)

And for me to document it. ;-)

> Moving the expedited handling into its own files indeed
> seems to better organize the sub-parts of RCU. That seems
> like a good idea.

Sounds good, will give it a try. If it works well, I might do the same
for other sub-parts of RCU.

Thanx, Paul