Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.6

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 - 11:34:08 EST


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:06:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 03:12:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > (Note the somewhat larger .html/.htmlx files about RCU data structures - let us
> > > > know if you think they are over the top.)
> > >
> > > I don't think they are over the top because they are *large*.
> > >
> > > I don't want to pull them because they seem to be totally pointlessly
> > > *duplicate*,
> > >
> > > I don't want to see the same stuff twice.
> > >
> > > Either you do html, or you do htmlx. But in no case do you do *both*.
> > >
> > > And quite franklty, since the only point of that seems to be the whole
> > > "quiz" thing, I erally think this should go away.
> > >
> > > No more of these silly cute pictures, or cute html tricks with quizzes.
> > >
> > > Do *documentation*, not games!
> > >
> > > Not pulled.
> >
> > OK, will rework.
>
> Meanwhile, to not hold up the other RCU changes, I've reconstructed core/rcu with
> the following branches:
>
> fixes.2015.02.23a: Miscellaneous fixes
> torture.2015.02.23a: Torture-test updates
>
> i.e. the doc.2015.02.23a bits that need reworking are left out.
>
> I'll send an updated pull request in a few minutes.

Good point! I will send a pull of the documentation commits that do not
involve Documentation/RCU/Design.

Thanx, Paul