From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263611AbUEEHeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:34:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263636AbUEEHeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:34:14 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:36495 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263611AbUEEHeK (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2004 03:34:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 00:24:31 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Jackson Cc: Andrew Morton , ashok.raj@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, John Reiser , mike@navi.cx, pageexec@freemail.hu, Matthew Dobson , Rusty Russell , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: various cpu patches [was: (resend) take3: Updated CPU Hotplug patches] Message-ID: <20040505072431.GG1397@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Paul Jackson , Andrew Morton , ashok.raj@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, John Reiser , mike@navi.cx, pageexec@freemail.hu, Matthew Dobson , Rusty Russell , Nick Piggin References: <20040504211755.A13286@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20040504225907.6c2fe459.akpm@osdl.org> <20040505000348.018f88bb.pj@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040505000348.018f88bb.pj@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:03:48AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Hmmm .. we're getting backed up here. Sure glad Andrew's got the job of > conducting this, not me ... > The purpose of this message is to list several patches that are > interacting, and the order that I'm guessing Andrew will end up taking > them. I claim no authority, and at best very limited forecasting > ability. > This is just to put a source of possible confusions on the table, > by running it up the flagpole, and inviting the shooting to begin. > The following patches are colliding or interacting, listed in the order > that I'm guessing they will end up going into *-mm, and with my guess of > their current status: > 1. Nick Piggin's sched_domains patches (in *-mm now) > 2. Ashok Raj's CPU Hotplug patches for IA64 (sent back to author for repair) > 3. Paul Jackson's bitmap/cpumask cleanup (in my workarea ready to submit) > 4. John Reiser's bssprot (unrelated, except for ia64 friendly fire damage) > 5. Matthew Dobson's nodemask_t (in Matthew's workarea, ready to submit) > 6. Andi Kleen's numa placement (being reviewed now, I think) I don't see any essential interaction between these patches. This appears to be 100% mergewerk. I don't think there's any essential conflict, just potential PITA rediffing for the (re)senders if/when they touch the same lines of code and things get accepted in a different order from what ppl merged their stuff against. As far as I'm concerned, business as usual. -- wli