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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mutex subsystem: basic per arch fast path primitives
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:53:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051222215331.GA11707@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512221630430.26663@localhost.localdomain>

> OK, let's look at actual code please.  Do you have anything against this 
> and the following patches?
> 
> This patch adds fast path mutex primitives for all architectures.  It 
> replaces your atomic_*_call_if_* patches that didn't seem to please 
> everybody, mutex usage notwithstanding.

Thanks Nico, this is exactly what I wanted to see.

One question about the naming of the arch helpers, do we really need the
fastpath in there?  Or just __mutex_* ?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-22 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-22 11:41 [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 12:45   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 15:34   ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 15:40     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:32       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 16:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:58           ` Russell King
2005-12-22 21:04             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 21:26               ` Russell King
2005-12-22 21:27               ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:37                 ` [patch 1/2] mutex subsystem: basic per arch fast path primitives Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:53                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-12-22 21:40                 ` [patch 2/2] mutex subsystem: use the per architecture fast path lock_unlock defines Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:54                 ` [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 16:58           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 17:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 17:33     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 18:24       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 11:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 12:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-22 13:07     ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 13:23       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-22 13:44         ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 14:11           ` Alan Cox
2005-12-22 23:30             ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 23:34               ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                 ` <32801.10.10.10.28.1135295357.squirrel@linux1>
2005-12-22 23:49                   ` Sean
2005-12-22 23:53                     ` Randy.Dunlap
     [not found]                       ` <50572.10.10.10.28.1135296023.squirrel@linux1>
2005-12-23  0:00                         ` Sean
2005-12-23  0:00                       ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]                 ` <20051222221311.2f6056ec.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-12-23 14:24                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-23 14:51                     ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-23 14:57                       ` Russell King
2005-12-23 15:04                         ` Xavier Bestel
2005-12-23 15:27                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-23 15:00                       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-03 17:54                       ` Abhijit Bhopatkar
2005-12-25 16:08                 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-25 22:54                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-26 21:49                     ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-25 23:04                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-25 23:22                     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-26 10:35                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26 10:42                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-26 11:11                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26 17:15                             ` Mike Galbraith
2005-12-26 17:44                               ` Lee Revell
2005-12-27  0:32                             ` David Lang
2005-12-26 18:15                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-27 14:42                         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-27 23:02                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-26  0:33                     ` Moore's law (was Re: [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4) Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 15:30                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-05 19:08                         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-26 15:29                     ` [patch 0/9] mutex subsystem, -V4 Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 15:46           ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-22 17:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-22 20:09               ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 17:17           ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-22 15:19       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-22 21:43       ` Paul Mackerras

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