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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:28:00 +0100
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* 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