From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755307Ab3LRPgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:36:48 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:46129 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754923Ab3LRPgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:36:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:36:44 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use lockless lists for smp_call_function_single() Message-ID: <20131218153644.GA16049@infradead.org> References: <1387380302-29552-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1387380302-29552-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > these three patches make smp_call_function_single() use lockless lists and > cleanup abuse of csd.list in the block layer. I have some use for lockless > smp_call_function_single() in printk code and that's why I've picked up > Christoph's patch. Jens, can you have a look at the series please? seconded. Also I think your two cleanups should go before my patch. I'll also dust up my other patch to use __smp_call_function_single directly in the block layer once we make progress on these.