Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267382AbUIJMQ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267381AbUIJMQ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:16:56 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:53379 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267382AbUIJMQs (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:16:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:16:39 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Ingo Molnar Cc: 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: <20040910121639.GD2616@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Ingo Molnar , Anton Blanchard , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , Zwane Mwaikambo , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Matt Mackall , "Nakajima, Jun" References: <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> <20040910074033.GA27722@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040910074033.GA27722@elte.hu> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 22 * William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> 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). On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:40:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > 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 When I noticed there was work to do along the lines of creating read_trylock() primitives I dropped the ->break_lock -less variant I had brewed up and directed Linus to your patch. -- wli - 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/