Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764029AbZD3Ow2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:52:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763963AbZD3Ovz (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.254]:34330 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763861AbZD3Ovx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:42:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@qirst.com To: Ingo Molnar cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , KOSAKI Motohiro , Peter Zijlstra , thomas.pi@arcor.dea, Yuriy Lalym , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in redirty_page_for_writepage() In-Reply-To: <20090430143215.GE14696@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20090429232546.GB15782@Krystal> <20090430024303.GB19875@Krystal> <20090430133859.GB8329@elte.hu> <20090430135005.GA5922@Krystal> <20090430143215.GE14696@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 20 On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Christoph's zero-based x86 percpu patches were incomplete and never > worked reliably - Christoph unfortunately never addressed the > bugs/crashes i reported. (and Mike Travis and me injected quite a > bit of testing into it) There were two failed attempts to productize > them and the patches just bitrotted for more than a year. Sorry not my issue. Mike took over that work on the x86 arch. I am fine with how things developed. The core patches fell off the priority list after job change. Just get the things that are not right now straightened out. -- 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/