Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753910Ab0LQAUg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:20:36 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:37451 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752234Ab0LQAUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:20:35 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,358,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="869123685" Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v8 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list From: Huang Ying To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <1292491467.6803.4327.camel@twins> References: <1292482744-12953-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1292491467.6803.4327.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:20:32 +0800 Message-ID: <1292545232.12648.1236.camel@yhuang-dev> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:24 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:59 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > > This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less > > list. > > Still no users the allocator, and no attempt to unify the existing > lockless list implementations. > > I'm getting very tired of this Huang. I just want to do that in the next step after merging the data structure itself. The first user of the allocator is APEI, which will go ACPI tree, lockless list in irq_work will go tip tree, lockless list in xlist will go net tree. We must merge the data structure with its users together? Best Regards, Huang Ying -- 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/