From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261823AbVG1RMv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:12:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261715AbVG1RM1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:12:27 -0400 Received: from graphe.net ([209.204.138.32]:32232 "EHLO graphe.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261698AbVG1RLT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:11:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:11:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: christoph@graphe.net To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 In-Reply-To: <20050728025840.0596b9cb.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20050728025840.0596b9cb.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -5.8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > I remain fairly dubious about this - it seems a fairly specific and > complex piece of work to speed up one extremely specific part of one type of > computer's one type of workload. Surely there's a better way :( The patches provide the basis for more work on this issue. But we need to start somewhere. The specific issue addresses in the initial patchset is becoming a common case for multi-core applications. > The patches at present spit warnings or don't compile on lots of > architectures. x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 are OK. I have just sent a fix to you this morning when I got your messages. Sadly I do not have access to the architectures that failed (arm, alpha and ppc32) but the fix simply removes code that is not used for these arches.