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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:36:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB8D86E.1000008@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DB88298.735FD044@digeo.com

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Hugh Dickins wrote:
>  
>
>>...
>>Manfred and I have both reviewed the patch (or the 2.5.44 version)
>>and we both recommend it highly (well, let Manfred speak for himself).
>>
>>    
>>
>
>OK, thanks.
>
>So I took a look.  Wish I hadn't :(  The locking rules in there
>are outrageously uncommented.  You must be brave people.
>  
>
Ahm. No idea who wrote the current locking. But the patch is very nice, 
it reduces the lock contention without increasing the number of spinlock 
calls.

--
    Manfred


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-25  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-18  0:14 [PATCH]IPC locks breaking down with RCU mingming cao
2002-10-20 13:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-20 17:27   ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-21 18:11     ` mingming cao
2002-10-21 19:00       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-24 21:49         ` [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch mingming cao
2002-10-24 22:29           ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 22:56             ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-24 23:30               ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-24 23:59                 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-25  0:35                   ` [Lse-tech] " Rick Lindsley
2002-10-25  1:07                     ` Robert Love
2002-10-25  0:07                 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25  0:24                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-25  4:18                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25  5:53                   ` mingming cao
2002-10-25  7:27                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-25  5:36                 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-10-25 16:53                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-24 23:23             ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 14:21               ` [Lse-tech] " Paul Larson
2002-10-25 17:17                 ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 18:20                   ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 18:51                     ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 19:06                       ` Paul Larson
2002-10-25 20:14                         ` mingming cao
2002-10-25 20:23                       ` Manfred Spraul
2002-10-25  0:38             ` Cliff White
2002-10-31 17:52             ` [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch [PERFORMANCE RESULTS] Bill Hartner
2002-10-21 19:18       ` [PATCH]IPC locks breaking down with RCU Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-21 19:36         ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-21 19:41         ` mingming cao
2002-10-21 20:14           ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-21 18:07   ` mingming cao
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-25 17:20 [PATCH]updated ipc lock patch Cliff White
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210270748560.1704-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2002-10-28  1:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 14:21   ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-28 21:47     ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-29  0:26       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-10-29  2:51         ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 20:00   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-28 21:41     ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-29  6:11       ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-28 22:07     ` mingming cao
2002-10-29  1:06       ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28  1:15 Rusty Russell
2002-10-28  1:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-10-28  4:10   ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 17:08     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-10-28 22:39       ` Rusty Russell
2002-10-28 23:52         ` Davide Libenzi

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