Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 29 2010 - 16:30:42 EST


On 12/20/2010 05:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 07:28 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Peter, these three patches are the x86 ones which were in
>> percpu#for-next but should go through x86 tree. These should be
>> applied on top of percpu#this_cpu_ops.
>
> Does that mean the latter is now a stable base that I can pull into -tip?
>

Hi Tejun,

I talked this over with Ingo, and Ingo is really unhappy about making
-tip depend on the percpu tree ... he says "there are enough problems
with keeping the dependencies working as it is". As such, it would be
better if you could take these patches in the percpu tree, with my ack.

-hpa
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