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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:28:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225112800.GG15453@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225052244.GB22785@wotan.suse.de>


* 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.

I've applied your patch to tip:core/ipi and will keep it there 
unless there are objections.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-25 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25  5:22 [patch] generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking Nick Piggin
2009-02-25  5:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-25 11:28 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-25 11:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-25 12:23     ` Ingo Molnar

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