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documentation: Add pointer to percpu-ref for RCU and refcount
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:52:59 +0000 (11:52 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:32:56 +0000 (08:32 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt

index 141d531..613033f 100644 (file)
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 Reference-count design for elements of lists/arrays protected by RCU.
 
+
+Please note that the percpu-ref feature is likely your first
+stop if you need to combine reference counts and RCU.  Please see
+include/linux/percpu-refcount.h for more information.  However, in
+those unusual cases where percpu-ref would consume too much memory,
+please read on.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Reference counting on elements of lists which are protected by traditional
 reader/writer spinlocks or semaphores are straightforward: