From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] percpu: generalize first chunk allocators and improve lpage NUMA support Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:20:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20090625092011.GA23547@elte.hu> References: <1245850216-31653-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20090624165508.30b88343.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4A42E25B.6080102@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:38385 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbZFYJU3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:20:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A42E25B.6080102@kernel.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, cl@linux-foundation.org * Tejun Heo wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The Impact: lines were useful :) > > Eh.. well, it looks like it's going the way of dodo tho. Yes. I found them useful too but some people (including Andrew ;) were too argumentative about it so i asked you to remove them from this patch-set. So yes, it's all going the way of the dodo. And yes, i attribute the excellent stability of the x86 code in this cycle partly to the effect of impact lines. They really helped us be very conscious with dangerous changes. Ingo