linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909301738220.6996@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes



On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Ok, it now looks good in all tests here so Linus please pull the latest 
> sched-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git sched-fixes-for-linus

Pulled. I'd also like to see something that actually fails gracefully on 
cmpxchg() of an unsupported size, though. The silent failure still annoys 
me.

Big thanks to Eric for noticing it, it's that dangerous kind of "but it 
looks perfectly sane in C code" things.

			Linus
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