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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:43:01PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:13:50AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Yes, this patch helps my case as well.
> >
> > Very good!!!
> >
> > Pranith, I can take this patch, but would you be willing to invert
> > the sense of ->nocb_leader_wake (e.g., call it ->nocb_leader_sleep or
> > some such)? This field is only used in eight places in the source code.
> >
> > The idea is that inverting the sense of the field allows the normal C
> > initialization of zero to properly initialize this field, plus it gets
> > rid of a few lines of code.
>
> Sure, that is indeed a good idea. I will send a new patch.

Very good, looking forward to seeing it!

Thanx, Paul



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