linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups

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Message-ID: <480E3E83.3050007@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:39 +0400
From:	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups

Ingo Molnar пишет:
> * Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> This should be #1, #3 and #4. The NexGen patch, which was #2 in the 
>>>> original series, have been replaced by a bigger patch that kills 
>>>> NexGen altogether. Plese check, if you have time for that.
>>> yeah, i did the right thing and described the wrong selection :) You 
>>> can check the end result via:
>>>
>>>   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
>> ... which indicates that #4 is still not there, which is a pity, since 
>> the #4 patch gave me a more-than-negligible binary shrinkage for the 
>> case CONFIG_SYSFS=n :)
> 
> oh, yes, i forgot - that collided with some changes to that file - 
> percpu changes and 4Kcpu support. I think we should delay #4 to a bit 
> later, when the other changes have gone in - or you could try to send a 
> patch against sched-devel.git/latest which should show the merged up 
> status of that code:
> 
>   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/sched-devel.git/README
> 
> sched-devel/latest has all of the x86 tree 'embedded' in it - plus the 
> 4Kcpu changes as well.

OK, let's wait till the things calm down a bit. The "sysfs disabled" case
should be rare enough to not be in a big rush here.

I'll resubmit this after the merge window has closed.

Thanks,
Dmitri

> 
> 	Ingo
> 

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