Re: Simplifying our RCU models

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 12:45:24PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:48:50AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I am currently in the design (more accurately, reredesign phase) for
> the simplification.  It is quite possible that there is a good reason
> for at least some renaming, but in that case, I would come back later
> with that as a separate proposal.

And I really am still working on this.  It is a bit tricky, but still
looks doable.  More likely to be ready for 4.19 than 4.18, though.

							Thanx, Paul