Re: [PATCH v9 03/19] qspinlock: Add pending bit

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Apr 18 2014 - 12:36:57 EST


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:23:29PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 03:42 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >* Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Because the qspinlock needs to touch a second cacheline; add a pending
> >>bit and allow a single in-word spinner before we punt to the second
> >>cacheline.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Signed-off-by: Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
> >This patch should have a "From: Peter" in it as well, right?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> > Ingo
>
> Do you mean a "From:" line in the mail header? It will be a bit hard
> to have different "From:" header in the same patch series. I can
> certainly do that if there is an easy way to do it.

It is pretty easy.

Just do 'git commit --amend --author "The Right Author"' and when
you send the patches (git send-email) it will include that.

>
> -Longman
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