From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932105AbWFCIW2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 04:22:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751092AbWFCIW2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 04:22:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26276 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751470AbWFCIW1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 04:22:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:22:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Chen, Kenneth W" Cc: mingo@elte.hu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, mason@suse.com, kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] fix smt nice lock contention and optimization Message-Id: <20060603012212.5edac4d0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <000901c686e6$225abd90$df34030a@amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20060603011107.4c6de627.akpm@osdl.org> <000901c686e6$225abd90$df34030a@amr.corp.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:17:19 -0700 "Chen, Kenneth W" wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote on Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:11 AM > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > looks really good now to me. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar > > > > > > lets try it in -mm? > > > > > > > Yup. I redid Ken's patch against mainline and them mangled > > lock-validator-special-locking-schedc.patch to suit. > > Hmm, wish I knew this beforehand, so that I won't spend extra 1/2 > hour to port the patch to -mm and only to have you convert it back > to mainline. I could just post the version I originally had against > the mainline. > Unless you're specifically working against code which is only in -mm (or a subsystem tree), please work against mainline.