From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263628AbUEEHtJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:49:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263636AbUEEHtJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:49:09 -0400 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:5134 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263628AbUEEHtF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:49:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 00:44:56 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ashok.raj@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, jreiser@BitWagon.com, mike@navi.cx, pageexec@freemail.hu, colpatch@us.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: various cpu patches [was: (resend) take3: Updated CPU Hotplug patches] Message-Id: <20040505004456.4fd397f0.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040505072431.GG1397@holomorphy.com> References: <20040504211755.A13286@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20040504225907.6c2fe459.akpm@osdl.org> <20040505000348.018f88bb.pj@sgi.com> <20040505072431.GG1397@holomorphy.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I don't see any essential interaction between these patches. Essentially, yes. The interactions were: Ashok's Hotplug added an essential arch-specific ifdef to a arch-specific cpumask file that my cleanup removes - so I had to work with Ashok to remove that arch dependency. Reiser's bssprot broke ia64, so I couldn't test with that patch. Matthew has recoded his nodemask patch to presume my cpumask cleanup. Andi's numa patch is so far as we know independent, but close enough to all this other activity to be at risk for something. The interactions were enough that I probably couldn't expect Andrew to wade through them to adapt my cleanup. Rather I pretty much have to deliver my cleanup ready to go, with whatever Andrew thinks is his current *-mm series. I'll be doing well just to get Andrew to look at it, despite what I take to be endorsements from Matthew, Rusty and Joe Korty, and conditional acceptance from yourself. Andrew would probably drop it in a heartbeat if it collided non-trivially. So merge work - yes. But merge work that mostly I need to do, which makes me very sensitive to the order in which things happen. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373