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Message-ID: <20071107084622.GB22719@wotan.suse.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:46:23 +0100
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins.ml@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] x86: FIFO ticket spinlocks
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:33:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, if this can make its way to the x86 tree, I think it will get
> > pulled into -mm (?) and get some exposure...
>
> ok, we can certainly try it there.
Anything particular I have to do to get it into the x86 tree? And
presumably that tree is going to be picked up by Andrew at some
point? (-mm exposure is the main objective here, the only reason I
didn't send it to Andrew directly is in the interests of doing the
right thing).
> Your code is really nifty.
Thanks. One of the CPU engineers at Intel asked to use it as their reference
ticket lock code sequence, which was pretty cool :)
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