Re: [GIT PULL] RCU fix

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 13:05:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
>
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-urgent-for-linus

So remind me again why RCU switched to the stupid threads? It caused
problems for rcutiny, it now causes silly problems for rcutree. Why do
it? It's just extra complexity and no real advantage afaik.

Linus
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