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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	eranian@google.com, brgerst@gmail.com, robert.richter@amd.com,
	Andreas.Herrmann3@amd.com, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:22:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205102223.GA3143@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322570488-21798-1-git-send-email-hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>


* Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> wrote:

> These patches were built and tested against 3.1. The older RFC 
> patches that have been lingering in tip/x86/xsave for the last 
> few months should be removed.

They have been lingering because of negative review feedback i 
have given to you about LWP. I'm not convinced about the current 
form of abstraction that this patch-set offers.

See this past discussion from half a year ago:

  Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/8] x86, xsave: rework of extended state handling, LWP support

We can and should do better than that.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-05 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-29 12:41 [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86, xsave: warn on #NM exceptions caused by the kernel Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86, xsave: cleanup fpu/xsave support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86, xsave: cleanup fpu/xsave signal frame setup Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, xsave: rework fpu/xsave support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86, xsave: remove unused code Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86, xsave: more cleanups Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86, xsave: remove lazy allocation of xstate area Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86, xsave: add support for non-lazy xstates Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 12:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86, xsave: add kernel support for AMDs Lightweight Profiling (LWP) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-29 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Andi Kleen
2011-11-30 17:37   ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-11-30 21:52     ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-01 20:36       ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-02  2:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-02 11:20           ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-07 19:57             ` Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-07 20:00               ` [PATCH 7/8] x86, xsave: add support for non-lazy xstates Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-07 20:00                 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86, xsave: add kernel support for AMDs Lightweight Profiling (LWP) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-05 10:22 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-12-16 16:07   ` [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12     ` [RFC 1/5] x86, perf: Implement software-activation of lwp Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12       ` [RFC 2/5] perf: adds prototype for a new perf-context-type Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12       ` [RFC 3/5] perf: adds a new pmu-initialization-call Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-16 16:12       ` [RFC 4/5] x86, perf: implements lwp-perf-integration (rc1) Hans Rosenfeld
2011-12-18  8:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-18 15:22           ` Benjamin Block
2011-12-18 23:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19  9:09               ` Robert Richter
2011-12-19 10:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 11:12                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 11:40                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 11:58                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-19 18:13                         ` Benjamin
2011-12-20  8:56                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20  9:15                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20  9:47                           ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-20 10:09                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 15:27                               ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-20 18:40                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21  0:07                                   ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-21 12:34                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 12:44                                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-21 13:22                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 22:49                                           ` Joerg Roedel
2011-12-23 10:53                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 11:46                                   ` Gleb Natapov
2011-12-23 10:56                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 15:48                           ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-20 18:27                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 22:47                               ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-21 12:00                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 13:55                                   ` Vince Weaver
2011-12-16 16:12       ` [RFC 5/5] x86, perf: adds support for the LWP threshold-int Hans Rosenfeld

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