From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933109AbXGKVzi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:55:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765623AbXGKVzI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:55:08 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:55600 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765546AbXGKVzH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:55:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:54:12 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Chris Wright Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070711215412.GZ4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> <28188.1184190381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28188.1184190381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: > (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) > > > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work > > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety > > of hardware and platform bugs. I obviously don't agree on your description > > of its maintenance state. > > I'm seeing a bit of a disconnect here. If you spent all that time making it > work, how come the guys who developed the patch are saying you didn't provide > any feedback about the patchset? I think Andi's referring to the existing x86_64 code, which gets replaced by the patchset in question.