Re: [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3

From: Mike Travis
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 18:53:50 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>> i had the patch below for v2, it's still needed (because i didnt
>>> apply the s390/etc. bits), right?
>> Well the patch really should go through mm because it is a change that
>> covers multiple arches. I think testing with this is fine. I think
>> Mike has diffed this against Linus tree so this works but will now
>> conflict with the modcopy patch already in mm.
>
> well we cannot really ack it for x86 inclusion without having tested it
> through, so it will stay in x86.git for some time. That approach found a
> few problems with v1 already. In any case, v3 is looking pretty good so
> far - and it's cool stuff - i'm all for unifying/generalizing arch code.
>
> Ingo

Hi Ingo,

You probably will want to pick up V4 though I didn't add that ifndef
patch you mentioned earlier. There are no functional changes, basically
only a rebasing on the correct mm version.

Thanks,
Mike
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