From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] workqueue: convert to raw_spinlock_t
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:01:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190626140112.GU657710@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1906261551190.32342@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Hello,
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:53:43PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I don't now what to make of the series. AFAICS, there's no benefit to
> > mainline. What am I missing?
>
> there is no downside either, right?
Sure, but that usually isn't enough for merging patches, right?
> It helps with the ongoing RT integration into the mainline kernel and we
> would appreciate if we can get the non controversial bits an pieces sorted.
I see. I understand the intention and it was a lot clearer when the
changes were beneficial to mainline kernel too and I'm not sure this
is a decision we wanna make per-subsystem. Maybe I'm just out of
loop. Are we generally doing this?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-13 14:50 [PATCH 0/6] workqueue: convert to raw_spinlock_t Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] workqueue: Make alloc/apply/free_workqueue_attrs() static Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] workqueue: Remove GPF argument from alloc_workqueue_attrs() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] workqueue: Don't assume that the callback has interrupts disabled Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] sched/swait: Add swait_event_lock_irq() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] workqueue: Use swait for wq_manager_wait Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-13 14:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] workqueue: Convert the locks to raw type Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-26 7:17 ` [PATCH 0/6] workqueue: convert to raw_spinlock_t Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-06-26 13:49 ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-26 13:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-26 14:01 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-06-26 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-26 14:18 ` Tejun Heo
2019-06-26 14:09 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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