From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933796AbXGKWM1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:12:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761997AbXGKWMS (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:12:18 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:50493 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761817AbXGKWMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:12:17 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Chris Wright Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:54:12 PDT." <20070711215412.GZ4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> <28188.1184190381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070711215412.GZ4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1184191888_3416P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:11:28 -0400 Message-ID: <29701.1184191888@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1184191888_3416P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:54:12 PDT, Chris Wright said: > * Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: > > (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) > > > > > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work > > > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety > > > of hardware and platform bugs. I obviously don't agree on your description > > > of its maintenance state. > > > > I'm seeing a bit of a disconnect here. If you spent all that time making it > > work, how come the guys who developed the patch are saying you didn't provide > > any feedback about the patchset? > > I think Andi's referring to the existing x86_64 code, which gets > replaced by the patchset in question. D'Oh! :) Yeah, the -rc4 version I'm looking at is like a dozen 1-3K patches setting up and cleaning up, and then one monster 65K patch doing the clockevents conversion, then another 6 or 8 small ones. Yeah, that one big patch really doesn't look separable to me. But as I said, I'm just a crash test dummy here. :) Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus, Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24 merge window, by my guesstimate)? --==_Exmh_1184191888_3416P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGlVWQcC3lWbTT17ARAomuAJ0ZKvVtXCOYkM4hr6x8lkJxDaQDWACg8fgQ GJ6loMYZASmfEbQfq0NMsNI= =0zDc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1184191888_3416P--