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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:38:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 RFC 1/3] sparc: Break up monolithic iommu table/lock into finer graularity pools and l
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: aik@au1.ibm.com, anton@au1.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, davem@davemloft.net

On (03/31/15 08:28), Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> Provided that the IB test doesn't come up with a significant difference,
> I definitely vote for the simpler version of doing a normal spin_lock.

sounds good. let me wait for the confirmation from IB,
and I'll send out patchv8 soon after. 

FWIW, I'm ok with all the other comments- thanks for the feedback.

--Sowmini