Re: Simplifying our RCU models

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 07 2018 - 13:48:59 EST


On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ah, and any thoughts on how best to get feedback from the various people
> who would need to reprogram their fingers? Or is everyone already on
> board with changing these various names?

I really would prefer to not see massive re-naming unless there is a
really good reason for it.

I'm all for simplifying RCU from a million different versions down to
just a few thousand, but I'm definitely not convinced we want to do
any search-and-replace.

Linus