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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Figo. zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] MCS Lock: Barrier corrections
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 09:25:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131107082541.GA32542@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzMcEudpr2rXdaD7O70=iMEYUKsjB5tGy=zFKTLiyhXgw@mail.gmail.com>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I don't necessarily mind the factoring out, I just think it needs to be 
> really solid and clear if - and *before* - we do this. [...]

Okay, agreed.

> [...] We do *not* want to factor out some half-arsed implementation and 
> then have later patches to fix up the crud. Nor when multiple different 
> locks then use that common code.
> 
> So I think it needs to be *clearly* great code before it gets factored 
> out. Because before it is great code, it should not be shared with 
> anything else.

Ok, we'll go through it with a fine comb and I won't rush merging it.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1383771175.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
2013-11-06 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] MCS Lock: MCS lock code cleanup and optimizations Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:41   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-11-06 23:55     ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-06 21:59     ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking code into its own file Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] MCS Lock: optimizations and extra comments Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:47   ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] MCS Lock: Barrier corrections Tim Chen
2013-11-07  1:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07  4:29     ` Waiman Long
2013-11-07  8:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-07  8:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07  8:25         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-11-07  9:55     ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 12:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07 12:50         ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 14:31           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-07 19:59             ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 21:15               ` Tim Chen
2013-11-07 22:21                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-07 22:43                   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-08  1:16                     ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] MCS Lock: Make mcs_spinlock.h includable in other files Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:41   ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] MCS Lock: Allow architecture specific memory barrier in lock/unlock Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:42   ` Tim Chen

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