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

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Message-ID: <4D0A799F.4060408@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:42:07 -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:
> Hey, again.
> 
> On 12/15/2010 05:39 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> I'd prefer percpu things going through percpu tree, if for nothing
>> else for git history's sake, but I don't think it really matters.  The
>> series is spread all over the place anyway.  As long as each
>> maintainer is properly alerted about the changes, it should be okay.
>> Please let me know whether you agree with the changes currently queued
>> in percpu#for-next.  I'll update the tree with your Acked-by's and
>> freeze it.
> 
> 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.
> 

Just finished reviewing the patches in percpu#for-next.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

Look good.  Let me know when you have a baseline I can pull into a tip
branch so we can build the rest of the patches on top.

	-hpa
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