From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@gmx.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch acpi-remove-locking-from-pm1x_sts-register-reads.patch added to 2.6.28-stable tree
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:12:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090209171254.GA24704@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E87738D94A6AD54789B5B8D1BAEB06CC49F143F02E@azsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:00:10AM -0700, Brown, Len wrote:
>
> >> why is this -stable material?
> >> this is a performance improvement....
> >
> >It is, and not a bugfix? If so, I'll drop it.
>
> yes, removing the un-necessary locking
> it is a scaling performance improvement.
>
> The code has been this way for years.
> The reason we noticed this issue recently
> is because of the emergence of systems that
> simultaneously have many threads and also
> have deep C-states.
>
> In 2.6.30 we plan larger improvements in this area.
Ok, I'll go drop this patch from the -stable trees.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 17:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20090208211932.4CAB349019@coco.kroah.org>
2009-02-09 0:24 ` patch acpi-remove-locking-from-pm1x_sts-register-reads.patch added to 2.6.28-stable tree Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2009-02-09 16:24 ` Greg KH
2009-02-09 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-09 16:49 ` Greg KH
2009-02-09 17:00 ` Brown, Len
2009-02-09 17:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-09 21:32 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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