From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1033204AbbKEISE (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 03:18:04 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:53433 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030959AbbKEISD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 03:18:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:17:19 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Linus Torvalds cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Peter Anvin , Borislav Petkov , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Travis , Daniel J Blueman Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] x86/apic: Implement single target IPI callback In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20151104215716.810356093@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001,URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Compiles and didn't explode when booting it, so it must be perfect :) > > I have taught you well, young padawan. The young padawan, who is a grumpy old grandpa today, learned that from the old masters of SC/MP knights in the end of the 70s. Back then compilers were mainly operated in brain and aided by instruction cards, paper, pencils and rubber. It always compiled so the only way to be sure was running it, which was an extra tedious task on such beasts: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRODPIC-4623.jpg Sorry, I had to disillusion you on that. tglx