From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 18/21] nd_btt: atomic sector updates Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20150610073434.GC3369@lst.de> References: <20150602001134.4506.45867.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150602001546.4506.15713.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150609064425.GF9804@lst.de> <1433874431.32607.37.camel@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1433874431.32607.37.camel-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Vishal Verma Cc: Dan Williams , axboe-tSWWG44O7X1aa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org, sfr-3FnU+UHB4dNDw9hX6IcOSA@public.gmane.org, rafael-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, neilb-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org, gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, linux-nvdimm-hn68Rpc1hR1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Vishal, I'm mostly worried about handling scalability to large CPU counts properly. If you think this is the best way to handle it that fine, but please document the decisions on the changelog in a similar form to what you did below.