Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: sync: Add abstraction for synchronize_rcu()

Philipp Stanner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.rcu,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2026-06-18 at 11:47 +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 01:40:05PM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > Moreover, this would be an opportunity to change the naming convention
> > to rcu::synchronize()
> > 
> > But since Boqun & Alice are pushing for rcu::RcuKBox for the reason
> > that it seems desirable to explicitly highlight that that's a special
> > Box, I guess we should be consistent with that and also have "rcu" in
> > the name here.
> 
> I prefer the naming of synchronize_rcu() here.

We might be tempted to at least call it rcu_synchronize(), though. It's
also RcuKBox, not KBoxRcu.

But I don't have hard emotions on that topic.


P.

> 
> Alice
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