[PATCH 0/4 RFC] preemptible RCU

2007-08-07 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! This patchset is an update of that posted by Dipankar last January (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/15/133). This is work in progress, not yet ready for inclusion. It passes rcutorture on i386, x86_64, and ppc64 boxes as well as kernbench, so should be safe for experimentation. As with

Re: [PATCH 0/4 RFC] preemptible RCU

2007-08-07 Thread Paul E. McKenney
This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for subsequently merging the preepmtpible RCU implementation. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED]