Re: [patch] fix smt nice lock contention and optimization

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:17:19 -0700
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote on Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:11 AM
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > looks really good now to me.
> > > 
> > >  Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > lets try it in -mm?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yup.  I redid Ken's patch against mainline and them mangled
> > lock-validator-special-locking-schedc.patch to suit.
> 
> Hmm, wish I knew this beforehand, so that I won't spend extra 1/2
> hour to port the patch to -mm and only to have you convert it back
> to mainline. I could just post the version I originally had against
> the mainline.
> 

Unless you're specifically working against code which is only in -mm (or a
subsystem tree), please work against mainline.

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