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From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/31] cpumask: Provide new cpumask API
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E25111.7060305@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E248CB.5080305@sgi.com>

Mike Travis wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
...
> 
>> In what way will Rusty's changes differ? Since you incorporate some of 
>> Rusty's changes already, could you please iterate towards a single 
>> patchset which we could then start testing?
> 
> Our timezones are not very conducive to a lot of email exchanges (and he's moving.)
>>From what I've seen I believe he's leaning towards using struct cpumask * and
> less trickery than I have.

Oh yeah, I forgot the other major point of Rusty's approach.  He wants the
patchset to be completely bisectable.  That's far from true in my version.  

Thanks,
Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 18:02 [PATCH 00/31] cpumask: Provide new cpumask API Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 01/31] cpumask: Documentation Mike Travis
2008-09-30 22:49   ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-01  9:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02  0:36       ` Rusty Russell
2008-10-02  9:32         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-02 12:54         ` Mike Travis
2008-10-03  9:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06 15:02             ` Pretty blinking lights vs. monitoring system activity from a system controller Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 02/31] cpumask: modify send_IPI_mask interface to accept cpumask_t pointers Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 03/31] cpumask: remove min from first_cpu/next_cpu Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 04/31] cpumask: move cpu_alloc to separate file Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 05/31] cpumask: Provide new cpumask API Mike Travis
2008-09-30  9:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 15:42     ` Mike Travis
2008-09-30 16:17       ` Mike Travis [this message]
2008-10-01  9:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 06/31] cpumask: new lib/cpumask.c Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 07/31] cpumask: changes to compile init/main.c Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 08/31] cpumask: Change cpumask maps Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:02 ` [PATCH 09/31] cpumask: get rid of _nr functions Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 10/31] cpumask: clean cpumask_of_cpu refs Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 11/31] cpumask: remove set_cpus_allowed_ptr Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 12/31] cpumask: remove CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 13/31] cpumask: modify for_each_cpu_mask Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 14/31] cpumask: change first/next_cpu to cpus_first/next Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 15/31] cpumask: remove node_to_cpumask_ptr Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 16/31] cpumask: clean apic files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 17/31] cpumask: clean cpufreq files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 18/31] cpumask: clean sched files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 19/31] cpumask: clean xen files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 20/31] cpumask: clean mm files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 21/31] cpumask: clean acpi files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 22/31] cpumask: clean irq files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 23/31] cpumask: clean pci files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 24/31] cpumask: clean cpu files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 25/31] cpumask: clean rcu files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 26/31] cpumask: clean tlb files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 27/31] cpumask: clean time files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 28/31] cpumask: clean smp files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 29/31] cpumask: clean trace files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 30/31] cpumask: clean kernel files Mike Travis
2008-09-29 18:03 ` [PATCH 31/31] cpumask: clean misc files Mike Travis

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