linux-kernel - Re: [cpuops cmpxchg V2 5/5] cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics

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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:19:15 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [cpuops cmpxchg V2 5/5] cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid
 lock semantics

On 12/16/2010 08:14 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> Are you okay with the patches currently in percpu#for-next?  If so,
> I'll regenerate patches with your acked-by and pop the two previously
> mentioned commits and proceed with the rest of the series.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

Still looking through them (sorry.)  I note that we probably do need to
get Christoph's followup patches into -tip, so we need to get it all
into tip; as such, even if it goes through your tree I'll need to pull
it into a tip branch.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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