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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:15:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120316071556.7a221aac@dt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331892788.18960.227.camel@twins>

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Also, wth is all this kernel/padata.c stuff? There's next to no useful
> comment in there and the only consumer seems to be pcrypt, does that
> really need to be in kernel/ ?

FWIW I wrote that stuff up when it went in...

	https://lwn.net/Articles/382257/

Might be helpful in case anybody else thinks they might want to use this
facility.  Maybe.

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-16 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16 10:13 cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-16 10:16 ` David Miller
2012-03-16 10:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-16 10:32     ` David Miller
2012-03-16 10:42       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-16 10:44 ` Steffen Klassert
2012-03-17 21:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-20  7:44     ` Steffen Klassert
2012-03-16 13:15 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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