Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263664AbUIJHjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266611AbUIJHjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:39:42 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:5318 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263664AbUIJHjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:39:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:40:34 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: William Lee Irwin III , Anton Blanchard , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , Zwane Mwaikambo , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Matt Mackall , "Nakajima, Jun" Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64 Message-ID: <20040910074033.GA27722@elte.hu> References: <16704.52551.846184.630652@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20040909220040.GM3106@holomorphy.com> <16704.59668.899674.868174@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20040910000903.GS3106@holomorphy.com> <20040910003505.GG11358@krispykreme> <20040910014228.GH11358@krispykreme> <20040910015040.GI11358@krispykreme> <20040910022204.GA2616@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040910022204.GA2616@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 23 * William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:50:41AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Lets just make __preempt_spin_lock inline, then everything should work > > as is. > > Well, there are patches that do this along with other more useful > things in the works (my spin on this is en route shortly, sorry the > response was delayed due to a power failure). i already sent the full solution that primarily solves the SMP && PREEMPT latency problems but also solves the section issue, two days ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/8/97 Ingo - 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/