Hi, On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:42 -0500, sri ram vemulpali wrote: > Hi all, > > > Can anyone explain what is struct rcu_data and what does it > store. I suggest you read up on RCU (Read-copy update). You can find plenty of info on LWN: What is RCU, Fundamentally? - http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/ What is RCU? Part 2: Usage - http://lwn.net/Articles/263130/ RCU part 3: the RCU API - http://lwn.net/Articles/264090/ And in the documentation directory of your Linux kernel sources, Documentation/RCU/00-INDEX Cheers, Joshua -- Joshua Lock Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ