Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups

From: Dmitri Vorobiev
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 15:37:54 EST


Ingo Molnar ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> * Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> This should be #1, #3 and #4. The NexGen patch, which was #2 in the
>>>> original series, have been replaced by a bigger patch that kills
>>>> NexGen altogether. Plese check, if you have time for that.
>>> yeah, i did the right thing and described the wrong selection :) You
>>> can check the end result via:
>>>
>>> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
>> ... which indicates that #4 is still not there, which is a pity, since
>> the #4 patch gave me a more-than-negligible binary shrinkage for the
>> case CONFIG_SYSFS=n :)
>
> oh, yes, i forgot - that collided with some changes to that file -
> percpu changes and 4Kcpu support. I think we should delay #4 to a bit
> later, when the other changes have gone in - or you could try to send a
> patch against sched-devel.git/latest which should show the merged up
> status of that code:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/sched-devel.git/README
>
> sched-devel/latest has all of the x86 tree 'embedded' in it - plus the
> 4Kcpu changes as well.

OK, let's wait till the things calm down a bit. The "sysfs disabled" case
should be rare enough to not be in a big rush here.

I'll resubmit this after the merge window has closed.

Thanks,
Dmitri

>
> Ingo
>

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