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

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Message-ID: <4D0A60BB.4020400@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:55:55 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.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

Hello,

On 12/16/2010 07:19 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Yeah, no problem.  Pekka also wants to pull the essential part into
the memory allocator part, so I think it would be best to keep at
least the proper percpu part and x86 specific ops in percpu tree tho.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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