From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:54:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~612^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b835db1f9cadaf008750a32664e35a207782c95e;p=pandora-kernel.git rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks Prior implementations initialized the root and any internal nodes without holding locks, then initialized the leaves holding locks. This is a false economy, as the leaf nodes will usually greatly outnumber the root and internal nodes. Acquiring locks on all nodes is conceptually much simpler as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <12524504773190-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed