linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.35

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Message-Id: <20100802103204.3d1b2863.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:32:04 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.35

Hi all,

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:52:42 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On a slightly happier note: one thing I do hope we can merge in the
> upcoming merge window is Nick Piggin's cool VFS scalability series.
> I've been using it on my own machine, and gone through all the commits
> (not that I shouldn't go through some of them some more), and am
> personally really excited about it. It's seldom we see major
> performance improvements in core code that are quite that noticeable,
> and Nick's whole RCU pathname lookup in particular just tickles me
> pink.

To that end, Nick, can you please submit that tree for inclusion in
linux-next in case there are some interactions with some of the other
stuff there?  (or send it all to Al, instead (or both), I guess.)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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