From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:01:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20091007201338.GE5903@nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: John Kacur , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Clark Williams To: Frederic Weisbecker Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091007201338.GE5903@nowhere> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0 > > Looks like we have overlaped. > > Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed > them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are > visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area. Now guess why I mentioned this branch sevaral times at the rt summit last week. It's even documented in Jonathans excellent meeting minutes on lwn.net :) Thanks, tglx