Re: [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support

Ingo Molnar
2011-12-05T10:24:06Z

* 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