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Message-ID: <20080422085233.GU12774@kernel.dk>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:52:33 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	npiggin@...e.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/11] x86: convert to generic helpers for IPI function  calls

On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > This converts x86 and x86-64 to use the new helpers for 
> > smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for 
> > smp_call_function_single().
> 
> nice stuff. The x86 and generic bits:
> 
>  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Thanks, adding...

> this has been brewing for months, what is the testing/confidence status 
> of it? Could we still merge it into v2.6.26? (i think we should)

I'm not aware of any problems. I'd be very grateful if you could give it
a spin on some of your test boxes, just to raise the confidence interval
a bit :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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