Re: Linus rollup

Anton Blanchard
2003-01-29T09:54:17Z

> I've sifted out all the things which I intend to send to the boss soon. It
> would be good if you could perform some quick non-ia32 testing please.
>
> Possible breakage would be in the new frlock-for-xtime_lock code and the
> get_order() cleanup.
>
> The frlock code is showing nice speedups, but I think the main reason we want
> this is to fix the problem wherein an application spinning on gettimeofday()
> can make time stop.

Checks out OK on ppc64 bar some problems with the get_order patch.
(should include linux/bitops.h instead of asm/bitops.h).

It passed some stress tests (sdet, tpc-h)

Anton