From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: travis@sgi.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:16:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108221646.GC21482@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081102450.2228@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
* Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > i had the patch below for v2, it's still needed (because i didnt
> > apply the s390/etc. bits), right?
>
> Well the patch really should go through mm because it is a change that
> covers multiple arches. I think testing with this is fine. I think
> Mike has diffed this against Linus tree so this works but will now
> conflict with the modcopy patch already in mm.
well we cannot really ack it for x86 inclusion without having tested it
through, so it will stay in x86.git for some time. That approach found a
few problems with v1 already. In any case, v3 is looking pretty good so
far - and it's cool stuff - i'm all for unifying/generalizing arch code.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 2:11 [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3 travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 01/10] percpu: Use a kconfig variable to signal arch specific percpu setup travis
2008-01-08 19:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 02/10] percpu: Move arch XX_PER_CPU_XX definitions into linux/percpu.h travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more "generic" travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86_32: Use generic percpu.h travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 06/10] s390: " travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 07/10] Powerpc: Use generic per cpu travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 09/10] ia64: " travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86: Unify percpu.h travis
2008-01-08 9:07 ` [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3 Ingo Molnar
2008-01-08 16:27 ` Mike Travis
2008-01-08 19:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08 22:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-08 23:53 ` Mike Travis
2008-01-08 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-08 20:29 ` Mike Travis
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