From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936258AbXGKXym (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:54:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935150AbXGKXgW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:36:22 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:60907 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764607AbXGKXgU (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:36:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:36:18 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Chris Wright Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070711233618.GD25510@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <1184191488.12353.160.camel@chaos> <1184194219.12353.170.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The same is true of a lot of the APIC timer code. Sure, that patch has the > actual conversion in it, and you don't have the cross-architecture issues, > but more than 50% of the patch seems to be just cleanup that is > independent of the actual switch-over, no? I don't think it's that much cleanup. One of my goals for x86-64 was always to have it support modern x86 only; this means in particularly most of the old bug workaround removed. With the APIC timer merging a lot of that crap gets back in. I would prefer to keep APIC code separate. -Andi