From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756178AbcASPhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:37:04 -0500 Received: from g1t6225.austin.hp.com ([15.73.96.126]:47496 "EHLO g1t6225.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754511AbcASPg6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:36:58 -0500 Message-ID: <569E5816.6000909@hpe.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:36:54 -0500 From: Waiman Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ling Ma CC: One Thousand Gnomes , Peter Zijlstra , mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ling Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] alispinlock: acceleration from lock integration on multi-core platform References: <1451549374-30875-1-git-send-email-ling.ma.program@gmail.com> <20160105211834.GR6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160105214227.3a2adcd2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20160106081643.GS6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160106082106.GU6373@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160106112450.6c5ad08b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20160112135016.247c6ca5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/19/2016 03:52 AM, Ling Ma wrote: > Is it acceptable for performance improvement or more comments on this patch? > > Thanks > Ling > > Your alispinlock patchset should also include a use case where the lock is used by some code within the kernel with test that can show a performance improvement so that the reviewers can independently try it out and play around with it. The kernel community will not accept any patch without a use case in the kernel. Your lock_test.tar file is not good enough as it is not a performance test of the patch that you sent out. Cheers, Longman