Re: [PATCH v8 01/10] qspinlock: A generic 4-byte queue spinlock implementation

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote:

> On 04/04/2014 09:00 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > So I'm just not ever going to pick up this patch; I spend a week 
> > trying to reverse engineer this; I posted a 7 patch series 
> > creating the equivalent, but in a gradual and readable fashion:
> >
> >   http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843@infradead.org
> >
> > You keep on ignoring that; I'll keep on ignoring your patches.
> >
> > I might at some point rewrite some of your pv stuff on top to get 
> > this moving again, but I'm not really motivated to work with you 
> > atm.
> 
> Peter, I am sorry that I have focused recently on making the 
> qspinlock patch works with virtualization and it is easier for me to 
> based off on my patch initially. Now the PV part is almost done, I 
> will apply them on top of your patch. Hopefully, I will get a new 
> patch out sometime next week.

Note that it's not "a patch" that PeterZ posted, but a series of 7 
finegrained patches, each properly documented and commented. Please 
preserve that work, build on top of it, and don't just ignore it!

Thanks,

	Ingo