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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:32:37 +0100
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On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > OK, shall we go ahead with this? Only objection from arch guys 
> > came from x86, which has since fixed up ordering of IPIs 
> > versus memory operations.
> > 
> > It simplifies things quite a bit and I think Peter is using it 
> > as a base under his remove kmalloc patchset..
> 
> Sure. I had Peter's patches in tip/core/ipi but they had test 
> failures so it's still being worked out.

You never had these latest few I think. Let me repost them.