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Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> So given those complexities, and the lack of a _user_ of
> radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch, it doesn't look like 2.6.18 stuff
> at this time.

So what should I do ? leave the bug in ppc64 or kill it's scalability
when taking interrupts ? You have one user already, me. From what Nick
says, the patch has been beaten up pretty heavily and seems stable....

Ben.