From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:36:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB8D86E.1000008@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB88298.735FD044@digeo.com
Andrew Morton wrote:
>Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
>
>>...
>>Manfred and I have both reviewed the patch (or the 2.5.44 version)
>>and we both recommend it highly (well, let Manfred speak for himself).
>>
>>
>>
>
>OK, thanks.
>
>So I took a look. Wish I hadn't :( The locking rules in there
>are outrageously uncommented. You must be brave people.
>
>
Ahm. No idea who wrote the current locking. But the patch is very nice,
it reduces the lock contention without increasing the number of spinlock
calls.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-25 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 0:14 [PATCH]IPC locks breaking down with RCU mingming cao
2002-10-20 13:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-20 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-21 18:11 ` mingming cao
2002-10-21 19:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-24 21:49 ` [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch mingming cao
2002-10-24 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 22:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-24 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 23:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-25 0:35 ` [Lse-tech] " Rick Lindsley
2002-10-25 1:07 ` Robert Love
2002-10-25 0:07 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 0:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-25 4:18 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25 5:53 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 7:27 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25 5:36 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-10-25 16:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-24 23:23 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 14:21 ` [Lse-tech] " Paul Larson
2002-10-25 17:17 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 18:20 ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 18:51 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 19:06 ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 20:14 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 20:23 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-10-25 0:38 ` Cliff White
2002-10-31 17:52 ` [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch [PERFORMANCE RESULTS] Bill Hartner
2002-10-21 19:18 ` [PATCH]IPC locks breaking down with RCU Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-21 19:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-21 19:41 ` mingming cao
2002-10-21 20:14 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-21 18:07 ` mingming cao
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-25 17:20 [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch Cliff White
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210270748560.1704-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2002-10-28 1:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 14:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-28 21:47 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-29 0:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-29 2:51 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 20:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-28 21:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-29 6:11 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-28 22:07 ` mingming cao
2002-10-29 1:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 1:15 Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 1:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-10-28 4:10 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 17:08 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-10-28 22:39 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 23:52 ` Davide Libenzi
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