Re: [PATCH 2/4] generic-smp: remove kmalloc usage

Linus Torvalds
2009-02-17T00:41:59Z

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Now that there is no strict need for kmalloc anymore, and nobody seems to
> rely it for the queueing behaviour, remove it.

Peter, I really hate this series.

Why?

In 1/4 you introduce that cfd RCU thing, and then in 2/4 you remove it
again.

I realize that you seem to do that in order to do some incremental
step-wise changes, but quite frankly, it just complicates the whole series
and makes the patches much harder to read and follow.

Why don't you just combine patches 1&2? That split-up seems to just
confuse things. At least it confuses me. Why does it happen?

Linus