From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] vDSO time changes for 2.6.40
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:23:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinxLPj-S82axeG6JHvM54hGfMt=9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1306156808.git.luto@mit.edu>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> [Patch 8/8 is brand-new and optional. If anyone objects to it,
> please just drop it for 2.6.40 and I'll fix it for 2.6.41.]
Hmm. I would just put it into 7/8 immediately, and never have the
stupid read-lock loop in the first place.
Or I would just say "the time() system call just isn't that critical,
let's not even bother".
But I'll bow to the x86 people on this. I think the series is ok,
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 13:31 Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] x86-64: Remove unnecessary barrier in vread_tsc Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] x86-64: Don't generate cmov " Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] x86-64: vclock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) can't ever see nsec < 0 Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] x86-64: Move vread_tsc into a new file with sensible options Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] x86-64: Turn off -pg and turn on -foptimize-sibling-calls for vDSO Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] x86-64: Add time to vDSO Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] x86-64: Optimize vDSO time() Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-23 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-05-23 15:28 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] vDSO time changes for 2.6.40 Andrew Lutomirski
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