Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses

Ingo Molnar
2009-08-03T06:16:32Z

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>>> Ingo, these patches might as well go through x86 tree. If you think
>>>>> that would be better, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>> Makes sense to me. I'll pull them into x86/percpu.
>>> Cool, dropping from my tree then.
>>
>> We can delegate the contents of x86/percpu to you (the topic branch
>> contains no patches over mainline right now) - i.e. we can pull those
>> bits from you and they could also be in your tree to keep your testing
>> & integration consistent.
>>
>
> I just pushed out these branches into tip:x86/percpu.

Thanks! (I'll test it and push it out into -tip:master.)

> [...] We can zap those if there is a tree head you'd rather use.

It's fine this way i think.

Tejun: in the future you might want to offer up new x86-only bits
based on tip:x86/percpu as git pulls.

Ingo