From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754043AbcESHRD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 03:17:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:37914 "EHLO mail-wm0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752643AbcESHRA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 03:17:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:16:54 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Waiman.Long@hpe.com, dhowells@redhat.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86, locking: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementation Message-ID: <20160519071654.GB7745@gmail.com> References: <20160518184302.GO3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160518191344.GA9101@char.us.oracle.com> <20160518193431.GQ3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160518193431.GQ3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Zijlstra wrote: > My motivation was that people keep trying to send patches against the ticket > lock code... David did just today, and he's not the first. Yeah, let's just remove dead code ASAP. It's not like it's hard to add (back) new code, should the need arise. Thanks, Ingo