Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for locklessupdate of refcount

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Sep 03 2013 - 11:38:49 EST


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Can someone summarize this thread (70+ postings)?
> Which patches are needed? And fixing what?
> ( Can people provide separate patches with a proper changelog? )
> Improvements?

The core lockref part is now merged and available in my git tree (and
yes, as individual patches with proper logs).

Al's patch to avoid the lg_lock is still pending, I'm assuming I'll
get it through his VFS tree.

Linus
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