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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to
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From: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com>
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On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 13:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 06:12:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This rest of the series converts the rwsem count variable to an atomic_long_t
> > > since it is used it as an atomic variable. This allows us to also remove
> > > the rwsem_atomic_{add,update} abstraction and reduce 100+ lines of code.
> > 
> > I would suggest you merge all the "remove rwsem_atomic_{add,update}"
> > patches into a single patch.
> > 
> > I don't see the advantage to splitting those up by architecture, and
> > it does add noise to the series.
> > 
> > Other than that it all looks fine to me.
> 
> OK, done.

Right, they all fit under the same category of "Removing
rwsem_atomic_{add,update}", so it makes sense to fold them into one
patch.

Thanks,
Jason