Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 13:44:00 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:43:59 -0500

> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:32 -0800, David Daney wrote:
>
>> This patch will conflict with the MIPS jump label support that Ralf has
>> queued up for 2.6.38.
>
> Can you disable that support for now? As Linus said at Kernel Summit,
> other archs jumped too quickly onto the jump label band wagon.

I totally disagree with this assesment. Implementing jump label for
sparc64 as early as possible found so much broken stuff that otherwise
would have merged in before any other architecture tried supporting
it.

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