From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:24:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170630002446.GM2393@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyogF0gpZ+5KHabFaYDhAq0awPzpSVj9S2q9EZnoY2eXQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:10:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please don't make this one commit fopr every architecture.
> >
> > Once something gets removed, it gets removed. There's no point in
> > "remove it from architecture X". If there are no more users, we're
> > done with it, and making it be 25 patches with the same commit message
> > instead of just one doesn't help anybody.
>
> Just to clarify: I think the actual *users* are worth doing one by
> one, particularly if there are user-specific explanations of what that
> particular code wanted, and why spin_unlock_wait() doesn't really
> help.
Got it, and I did merge -only- the arch-specific definition removals
into one commit. Should I also merge the core-code definition removals
into that same commit, or is it OK to remove the core-code definitions
with one commit and the arch-specific definitions with another.
(My guess is that you would prefer I removed -all- definitions with one
commit, including the core-kernel definitions, but at this point I figure
I should just ask.)
> And I think that you actually have those per-user insights by now,
> after looking at the long thread.
One Acked-by thus far, so some progress!
> So I'm not saying "do one patch for the whole series". One patch per
> removal of use is fine - in fact preferred.
Got it. It allows the developers and maintainers to tell me where my
analysis is wrong, for one thing. ;-)
> But once there are no actual more users, just remove all the
> architecture definitions in one go, because explaining the same thing
> several times doesn't actually help anything.
>
> In fact, *if* we end up ever resurrecting that thing, it's good if we
> can resurrect it in one go. Then we can resurrect the one or two users
> that turned out to matter after all and could come up with why some
> particular ordering was ok too.
Understood!
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-29 23:59 [PATCH RFC 0/26] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 01/26] netfilter: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <a6642feb-2f3a-980f-5ed6-2deb79563e6b@colorfullife.com>
2017-07-02 2:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 14:39 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-03 17:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 19:01 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-03 19:57 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 18:43 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-03 20:04 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-03 20:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 02/26] task_work: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 11:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 12:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 15:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 17:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 19:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-06-30 19:50 ` Alan Stern
2017-06-30 20:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 20:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 03/26] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 10:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-30 12:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 04/26] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 05/26] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 07/26] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 08/26] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 9:19 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 12:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 13:13 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 13:15 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-03 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-03 17:13 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-03 22:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-04 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-04 0:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-03 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 09/26] alpha: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 10/26] arc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 11/26] arm: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 9:20 ` Will Deacon
2017-06-30 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 13/26] blackfin: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 14/26] hexagon: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 15/26] ia64: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 16/26] m32r: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 18/26] mips: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 19/26] mn10300: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 20/26] parisc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 21/26] powerpc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-02 3:58 ` Boqun Feng
2017-07-05 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 22/26] s390: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 23/26] sh: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 24/26] sparc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-30 0:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-30 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-30 0:24 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 26/26] xtensa: " Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <1498780894-8253-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-01 19:23 ` [PATCH RFC 06/26] ipc: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Manfred Spraul
2017-07-02 3:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: Fix net_conntrack_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-06 20:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() David Laight
2017-07-06 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:49 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 19:37 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-06 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 16:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 16:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-06 17:08 ` Will Deacon
2017-07-06 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-06 17:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-07 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-07 14:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 8:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 11:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 17:47 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-08 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 11:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 12:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-08 14:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-08 16:21 ` Alan Stern
2017-07-10 17:22 ` Manfred Spraul
2017-07-07 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 9:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-07 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: Fix net_conntrack_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney
2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
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