Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754240AbaDWR4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:56:32 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:21564 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbaDWR4a (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:56:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:55:35 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Waiman Long Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , 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 , "Paul E. McKenney" , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Raghavendra K T , David Vrabel , Oleg Nesterov , Gleb Natapov , Scott J Norton , Chegu Vinod Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 05/19] qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS Message-ID: <20140423175535.GB11152@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1397747051-15401-6-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com> <20140417155649.GR11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <53504BB3.4010009@hp.com> <20140418082716.GZ11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <53516672.3010701@hp.com> <20140418190519.GA11182@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <53519BBF.7060506@hp.com> <5357CCEF.2000606@hp.com> <20140423145649.GE2777@phenom.dumpdata.com> <5357FBDE.4040400@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5357FBDE.4040400@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:43:58PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > On 04/23/2014 10:56 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > >>On 04/18/2014 05:40 PM, Waiman Long wrote: > >>>On 04/18/2014 03:05 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >>>>On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:52:50PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > >>>>>I am confused by your notation. > >>>>Nah, I think I was confused :-) Make the 1 _Q_LOCKED_VAL though, as > >>>>that's the proper constant to use. > >>>Everyone gets confused once in a while:-) I have plenty of that myself. > >>> > >>>I will change 1 to _Q_LOCKED_VAL as suggested. > >>> > >>>-Longman > >> > >>The attached patch file contains the additional changes that I had > >>made to qspinlock.c file so far. Please let me know if you or others > >>have any additional feedbacks or changes that will need to go to the > >>next version of the patch series. > >> > >>I am going to take vacation starting from tomorrow and will be back > >>on 5/5 (Mon). So I will not be able to respond to emails within this > >>period. > >> > >>BTW, is there any chance that this patch can be merged to 3.16? > >Um, it needs to have Acks from KVM and Xen maintainers who have not > >done so. Also Peter needs to chime in. (BTW, please CC > >xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org next time you post so that David and Boris > >can take a peek at it). > > I will cc xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org when I sent out the next patch. > > >I would strongly recommend you put all your patches on github (free git > >service) so that we can test it and poke it at during your vacation > >(and even after). > > > > I am not used to setting up a public repo in github. If I create a > repo there, should I put a snapshot of the whole kernel source tree > or just a portion of the relevant files as the base? With the later, > it won't be buildable. You just push your local branch. It should look like a normal Linux tree with your commits on top. > > -Longman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/