Re: [PATCH -v2 00/33] implement atomic_fetch_$op

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 08:55:39 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:33:04AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:27:36AM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>
> > > What's ur merge plan - are u going to rebase/respin once more so I can push those
> > > updates to Linus for 4.7-rc2. Or you could carry those ARC patches in ur tree -
> > > ahead of ur series. I'd much rather prefer the revert / cleanup before adding new
> > > code which extends the back off code only to be deleted later.
> >
> > I was hoping to get these into tip for v4.8, I can rebase on whatever
> > changes you make in v4.7 no problem.
>
> -rc2 seems to have happened and I cannot seem to find changes to
> arc/atomic.h, will you still be pushing those patches this window or
> should I queue my patches?

I'd much prefer to have all of these in the locking tree (i.e. tip:locking/core),
to make it less painful all around.

Thanks,

Ingo