From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755377Ab1ATL1Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:27:24 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:45323 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754910Ab1ATL1X convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:27:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list From: Peter Zijlstra To: huang ying Cc: Andrew Morton , Huang Ying , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Chris Mason In-Reply-To: References: <1295245019-7816-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <20110119135546.bb7e8f62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1295484358.15213.25.camel@yhuang-dev> <20110119165247.cca2f434.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1295520247.28776.152.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:27:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1295522876.28776.158.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:18 +0800, huang ying wrote: > > > > In fact, I have a patch ready and waiting to revert the whole irq_work > > stuff, that too seems to be a superfluous generalization. > > What do you plan to replace irq_work? I plan to use it in APEI NMI > handler and MCE handler. But will all that stuff be accepted? Please stop sending infrastructure bits and focus on your larger RAS picture, once you have consensus on that from all parties involved, then, and only then, does it make sense to submit everything, including infrastructure. As it stands now you're simply submitting infrastructure without any users, and we all know the RAS thing isn't settled, so those users might never come..