From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755692AbcGHPtI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:49:08 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:43892 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754881AbcGHPtB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:49:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:49:01 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: Chris Metcalf Cc: Catalin Marinas , Mark Rutland , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: arm64: factor work_pending state machine to C Message-ID: <20160708154901.GF6493@arm.com> References: <1459877922-15512-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com> <1459877922-15512-13-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Chris, On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > Ping! > > I am hopeful that this patch [1] can be picked up for the 4.8 merge window > in the arm64 tree. As I mentioned in my last patch series that included > this patch [2], I'm hopeful that this version addresses the performance > issues that were seen with Mark's original patch. This version tests the > TIF flags prior to calling out to the loop in C code. I still need to get round to measuring that again. This might also conflict with a late fix I just sent for 4.7. Is your task isolation series all ready apart from this? It seems like there's still discussion over there. Will