From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753562Ab1AUHbH (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:31:07 -0500 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:43691 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535Ab1AUHbF (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:31:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4D393636.4040607@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:31:02 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Christoph Lameter , Mathieu Desnoyers , "H. Peter Anvin" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [cpuops cmpxchg double V2 1/4] Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double References: <20110106204513.669098445@linux.com> <20110106204525.222395863@linux.com> <4D263C91.30709@zytor.com> <20110107180419.GB23082@Krystal> <20110108172453.GF13269@mtj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110108172453.GF13269@mtj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/8/11 7:24 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:41:58PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> >>> I have to admit that I also hate the current interface for two reasons: > > Call me weird but I like this one than others. It sure is ugly but > the operation itself isn't a particularly pretty so it kinda matches. > Also, this one is the least error prone and more consistent with other > cpu ops. So what are we going to do about this patch? I'd love to merge Christoph's SLUB patches for linux-next now that .38-rc1 is out. Pekka