Re: [PATCH RFC 01/16] prcu: Add PRCU implementation

[Lihao Liang]

Dear Peter,

Many thanks for your comments. I will provide a proper changelog.
Alternatively, the paper can be found at

http://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:consensus-tpds16.pdf

Best,
Lihao.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 03:59:26PM +0800, lianglihao@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Heng Zhang <heng.z@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This RCU implementation (PRCU) is based on a fast consensus protocol
>> published in the following paper:
>>
>> Fast Consensus Using Bounded Staleness for Scalable Read-mostly Synchronization.
>> Haibo Chen, Heng Zhang, Ran Liu, Binyu Zang, and Haibing Guan.
>> IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016.
>> https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3024114.3024143
>
> That's an utterly useless changelog for something like a new RCU
> implementation.
>
> You fail to describe why you're proposing a new RCU implementation; what
> problems does it fix?, how is it better?
>
> All you provide is a paywalled link to some paper that we can't read.
>
> Please write a real changelog that describes things properly and
> provide, if at all possible, a readily accessible link to your paper.