Re: [PATCH 1/3] rcu/nocb: Start moving nocb code to its own plugin file

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu May 20 2021 - 00:54:40 EST


On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:02:54AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 08:55:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:09:28AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > tree_plugin.h is now gathering not only the (no)preempt-rcu specifics
> > > but also other features like NO_CB. As the latter has grown quite in
> > > complexity and volume, it's may be a good idea to start moving the
> > > related code to its own file so we don't need to browse thousand lines
> > > to find what we need.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Applied with the usual wordsmithing, thank you!
> >
> > But for consistency with the other similar files included by
> > kernel/rcu/tree.c, should the name instead be kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h?
>
> Ah yes, I hesitated but tree_nocb.h is indeed more consistent. Can I let
> you do the rename?

Done!

> > Also, if Ingo and I are one the author list, shouldn't you be as well? ;-)
>
> Heh, alright feel free to add the following as a fixup :-)

And again, done. Or will be at the next rebase, anyway.

Thanx, Paul

> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/nocb.h
> index a7783923833e..bf2690ca5d2b 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/nocb.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/nocb.h
> @@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
> *
> * Copyright Red Hat, 2009
> * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2009
> + * Copyright SUSE, 2021
> *
> * Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + * Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
>
>
> Or perhaps you prefer a separate patch?
>
> Thanks!