From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86, locking: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementation Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:16:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20160519071654.GB7745@gmail.com> References: <20160518184302.GO3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160518191344.GA9101@char.us.oracle.com> <20160518193431.GQ3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Waiman.Long@hpe.com, dhowells@redhat.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160518193431.GQ3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > My motivation was that people keep trying to send patches against the ticket > lock code... David did just today, and he's not the first. Yeah, let's just remove dead code ASAP. It's not like it's hard to add (back) new code, should the need arise. Thanks, Ingo