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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/slab: break up RCU readers on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 05:26:57PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Hi Vlastimil,
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:05:40 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > On 4/15/23 05:31, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > > The SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU example code snippet is having not tiny RCU
> >
> > Since "tiny RCU" means something quite specific in the RCU world, it can be
> > confusing to read it in this sense. We could say e.g. "... snippet uses a
> > single RCU read-side critical section for retries"?
>
> Looks much better, thank you for this suggestion!
>
> >
> > > read-side critical section. 'Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst' has
> > > similar example code snippet, and commit da82af04352b ("doc: Update and
> > > wordsmith rculist_nulls.rst") has broken it.
> >
> > "has broken it" has quite different meaning than "has broken it up" :) I
> > guess we could just add the "up", unless someone has an even better wording.
>
> Good point, thank you for your suggestion!
>
> I will apply above suggestion on the next spin.

For the last one, perhaps changing the tense would have more clarity:

similar example code snippet, and commit da82af04352b ("doc: Update and
wordsmith rculist_nulls.rst") broke it up.

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