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

[Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>]

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)

-ck