Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned

From: Stephen Clark
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 14:13:18 EST


William Allen Simpson wrote:
In recent weeks, two different network projects erroneously
strayed down the rw_lock path. Update the Documentation
based upon comments by Eric Dumazet and Paul E. McKenney in
those threads.

Merged with editorial changes by Stephen Hemminger.

Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@xxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/spinlocks.txt | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)


How up to date is this doc?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/index.html

Should it be in the Documentation directory?


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