On 3/9/22 13:38, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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 > adding linux-block, linux-nvme and linux-fsdevel. -ck
