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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  V12 0/14] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:04:09 -0700
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On 08/08/2013 02:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 06:02 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:50:12PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 12:15:21PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>>>> On 08/07/2013 10:18 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>>>> Please let me know, if I should rebase again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> tip:master is not a stable branch; it is more like linux-next.  We need
>>>>> to figure out which topic branches are dependencies for this set.
>>>>
>>>> Okay. I 'll start looking at the branches that would get affected.
>>>> (Xen, kvm are obvious ones).
>>>> Please do let me know the branches I might have to check for.
>>>
>>> >From the Xen standpoint anything past v3.11-rc4 would work.
>>>
>> For KVM as early as past v3.11-rc1 would be OK.
>>
> 
> I'm still completely confused as to the base of this patchset.  The
> first patch has the following hunk for arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:
> 

Okay, I figured it out.

One of several problems with the formatting of this patchset is that it
has one- and two-digit patch numbers in the headers, which meant that my
scripts tried to apply patch 10 first.

	-hpa