Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753436AbbEHVS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 17:18:28 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33174 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752795AbbEHVS0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 17:18:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 14:18:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Chris Metcalf Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , "Rik van Riel" , Tejun Heo , Frederic Weisbecker , Thomas Gleixner , "Paul E. McKenney" , Christoph Lameter , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] support "dataplane" mode for nohz_full Message-Id: <20150508141824.797eb0d89d514e39fd30fffe@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1431107927-13998-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com> References: <1431107927-13998-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 13 On Fri, 8 May 2015 13:58:41 -0400 Chris Metcalf wrote: > A prctl() option (PR_SET_DATAPLANE) is added Dumb question: what does the term "dataplane" mean in this context? I can't see the relationship between those words and what this patch does. -- 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/