Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Changes in RCU over the past few years

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 03:50:43AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> On 3/3/22 19:51, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > There have been a number of changes to RCU over the past few years,
> > including consolidating the update-side RCU-preempt, RCU-sched,
> > and RCU-bh flavors, the addition of TREE SRCU, non-sleeping polled
> > grace-period interfaces for RCU and SRCU, and addition of a couple
> > variants of Tasks RCU.  This topic would include a quick overview of
> > these changes, with special attention to challenges when back porting to
> > pre-consolidated-RCU kernels.  Time permitting, it might also be useful
> > to look at some of the nuances of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.
> > 
> > This would also be an opportunity to discuss RCU use cases and potential
> > changes to RCU itself.
> > 
> > 						Thanx, Paul
> > 
> 
> I'll be very much interested in this topic and I think everyone
> non-only mm but fs/storage tracks can also benefit from this.
> 
> Perhaps we should add respective mailing list to this thread ?
> (linux-block and linux-fsdevel)

Works for me!

							Thanx, Paul