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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:38:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
        "Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone summarize this thread (70+ postings)?
> Which patches are needed? And fixing what?
> ( Can people provide separate patches with a proper changelog? )
> Improvements?

The core lockref part is now merged and available in my git tree (and
yes, as individual patches with proper logs).

Al's patch to avoid the lg_lock is still pending, I'm assuming I'll
get it through his VFS tree.

            Linus
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