Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:46:23 +0100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] x86: FIFO ticket spinlocks |
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:33:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > > > Anyway, if this can make its way to the x86 tree, I think it will get > > pulled into -mm (?) and get some exposure... > > ok, we can certainly try it there.
Anything particular I have to do to get it into the x86 tree? And presumably that tree is going to be picked up by Andrew at some point? (-mm exposure is the main objective here, the only reason I didn't send it to Andrew directly is in the interests of doing the right thing).
> Your code is really nifty.
Thanks. One of the CPU engineers at Intel asked to use it as their reference ticket lock code sequence, which was pretty cool :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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