From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx192.postini.com [74.125.245.192]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3272D6B0032 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:24:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:24:45 -0500 From: Seth Jennings Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] drivers: base: move mutex lock out of add_memory_section() Message-ID: <20130820172445.GE4151@medulla.variantweb.net> References: <1377018783-26756-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1377018783-26756-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dave Hansen , Nathan Fontenot , Cody P Schafer , Andrew Morton , Lai Jiangshan , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Yinghai Lu , Wanpeng Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Gah! Forgot the cover letter. This patchset just seeks to clean up and refactor some things in memory.c for better understanding and possibly better performance due do a decrease in mutex acquisitions and refcount churn at boot time. No functional change is intended by this set! Seth -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org