Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:01:27 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
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        hhuang@redhat.com, jason.low2@hp.com, walken@google.com,
        lwoodman@redhat.com, chegu_vinod@hp.com, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ipc,sem: sysv semaphore scalability
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:50:05 -0400 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:55:30 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This series makes the sysv semaphore code more scalable,
> > > by reducing the time the semaphore lock is held, and making
> > > the locking more scalable for semaphore arrays with multiple
> > > semaphores.
> > > 
> > > The first four patches were written by Davidlohr Buesso, and
> > > reduce the hold time of the semaphore lock.
> > > 
> > > The last three patches change the sysv semaphore code locking
> > > to be more fine grained, providing a performance boost when
> > > multiple semaphores in a semaphore array are being manipulated
> > > simultaneously.
> > 
> > These patches conflict pretty badly with Peter's:
> 
> On one point I'm a little confused: my series has been in linux-next for
> a while. On what tree is this series based?

It'll be based on mainline.  People often forget to peek into
linux-next when preparing patches.  In the great majority of cases
that's OK.  Occasionally, we lose...

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