linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the tip tree

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Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2017 06:54:48 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with the tip tree

> Argh!
> 
> Andrew, please drop that patch. And the x86 out-of-line of __atomic_add_unless().

Why dropping the second?  Do you have something better?

On the first there were no 0day regressions, so at least basic performance
checking has been done.

-Andi