Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 19:54:52 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
        xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
        Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
        Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>, Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
        Marcos Matsunaga <Marcos.Matsunaga@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/10] qspinlock: A generic 4-byte queue spinlock
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* Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote:

> On 04/04/2014 12:57 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 03:00:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>So I'm just not ever going to pick up this patch; I spend a week trying
> >>to reverse engineer this; I posted a 7 patch series creating the
> >>equivalent, but in a gradual and readable fashion:
> >>
> >>   http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843@infradead.org
> >>
> >>You keep on ignoring that; I'll keep on ignoring your patches.
> >>
> >>I might at some point rewrite some of your pv stuff on top to get this
> >>moving again, but I'm not really motivated to work with you atm.
> >Uh? Did you CC also xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org on your patches Peter?
> >I hadn't had a chance to see or comment on them :-(
> >
> 
> Peter's patch is a rewrite of my patches 1-4, there is no PV or 
> unfair lock support in there.

It is a fine grained split-up, which does one thing at a time, so it 
all becomes reviewable and mergable (and the claimed effects become 
testable!). Please use that as a base.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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