From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758327Ab0ELVic (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2010 17:38:32 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:19261 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758002Ab0ELVi0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2010 17:38:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Rpj3+ea2CuoFGKvkFQuRMAhiwRc7Mk3mN8iOLT5sWVEZ/xEAR9dAg37tgnGjAnkqb+ Y+B5/qTWGqrxSizW9f2/3qt9rUqMBOdp7JW6ZN1YzOwZJzRtuK3eOfUvdSTak0JCEUoE Kx27TPYBwOaM24QFsD3zSxejyvHpDU40fnjIE= Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 01:38:14 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Frederic Weisbecker , mingo@elte.hu Cc: Don Zickus , peterz@infradead.org, aris@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] [nmi watchdog] touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal Message-ID: <20100512213814.GB5190@lenovo> References: <1273266711-18706-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <20100512200652.GF10028@nowhere> <20100512202628.GK15159@redhat.com> <20100512202832.GG10028@nowhere> <20100512205616.GL15159@redhat.com> <20100512210034.GH10028@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100512210034.GH10028@nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:00:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: ... > > > > > > Ah right. > > > > > > BTW, if you address my reviews, please do it incrementally, I'm going > > > to apply this set and push it to Ingo. > > > > Ok, probably easier to review too. :-) > > > Yeah, and it's time to flush this code as it's good globally. > > Plus it would be nice to get this for .35 > > Ah and forget about the sysctl ABI breakages. Since this is only > used for kernel development, this is not going to break much things. > If somebody complains, we can still reintegrate what we had. > > Thanks. > ... Guys, could you please spend a few minutes and enlighten me a bit? Does all this series mean that we eventually will drop nmi-watchdog via io-apic (read via pic) as only the transition to perf complete? I recall someone said about to stop using io-apic, but just to be sure. -- Cyrill