tree 2f479215dff4a2d8f3a9ed85200a5bc4f51534be
parent 4369ef3c3e9d3bd9b879580678778f558d481e90
author Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1136710897 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1136780020 -0800

[PATCH] RCU signal handling

RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked
instead of tasklist_lock read-locked.  This is a scalability improvement on
SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>