linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3

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Message-ID: <47840D00.8000907@sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:53:36 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Lameter <clameter@....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

Hi Ingo,

You probably will want to pick up V4 though I didn't add that ifndef
patch you mentioned earlier.  There are no functional changes, basically
only a rebasing on the correct mm version.

Thanks,
Mike
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