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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:23:47 +0100
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> 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.

yeah, it was the initial version from a week ago or so.

	Ingo