Re: [tip:timers/nohz] nohz: Move full nohz kick to its own IPI

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 09:07:14PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > So we can as well zap these commits and replace them with the irq_work_on()
> > > > conversion (still preparing that).
> > > 
> > > I hear you, but I think Ingo doesn't want to rebase the tree because its
> > > public, but maybe he can make an exception..
> > 
> > Since tip:timers/nohz only contains these commits:
> > 
> >  fc1781cc66b1 Merge branch 'timers/nohz-ipi-for-tip-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
> >  72aacf0259bb nohz: Move full nohz kick to its own IPI
> >  55d77c215c74 smp: Non busy-waiting IPI queue
> > 
> > we can zap them all, or even keep 55d77c215c74.
> > 
> > Frederic, which one would you prefer?
> 
> I think we can zap them all. But since I'm not yet sure how the new 
> solution, based on irq work, is going to be received, do you mind if 
> we just wait for the new solution to be acked by Peterz?
> 
> If that's ok for you, I'll then do a pull request that includes the 
> solution and zaps the old two commits.

It's all isolated to timers/nohz, not mixed up with anything else, so 
zapping it is easy (I already zapped the second commit) and you can 
simply use latest -Linus to base your new solution on.

Thanks,

	Ingo