Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267383AbUIJMVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:21:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267381AbUIJMVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:21:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:2226 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267387AbUIJMVB (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:21:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:22:11 +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: <20040910122211.GA5925@elte.hu> References: <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> <20040910121639.GD2616@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040910121639.GD2616@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: 1115 Lines: 27 * William Lee Irwin III wrote: > * 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. thanks - i just read that mail. I'd expect the preempt-smp patch to go the normal route via touching -mm first. 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/