From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:11:49 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] x86_64: Support for cpu ops In-Reply-To: <20081106151558.GB1644@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20081105231634.133252042@quilx.com> <20081105231649.108433550@quilx.com> <20081106071206.GH15731@elte.hu> <20081106151558.GB1644@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, travis@sgi.com, Stephen Rothwell , Vegard Nossum List-ID: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > But it's not actually utilized on x86. AFAICS you guys never came back > with working patches for that (tip/x86/percpu is empty currently), and > now i see something related on lkml on a separate track not Cc:-ed to > the x86 folks so i thought i'd ask whether more coordination is > desired here. We should definitely look into this but my priorities have changed a bit. 32 bit is far more significant for me now. Could you point me to a post that describes the currently open issues with x86_64? Mike handled that before. > So ... what's the merge plan here? I like your fundamental idea, it's > a nice improvement in a couple of areas and i'd like to help out make > it happen. Also, the new per-cpu allocator would be nice for the > sparseirq code. Right. Its good in many areas. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org