Re: [PATCH v9 05/19] qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS

[Waiman Long]

On 04/23/2014 01:55 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:43:58PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > On 04/23/2014 10:56 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > On 04/18/2014 05:40 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > > On 04/18/2014 03:05 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:52:50PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > > > > I am confused by your notation.
> > > > > > Nah, I think I was confused :-) Make the 1 _Q_LOCKED_VAL though, as
> > > > > > that's the proper constant to use.
> > > > > Everyone gets confused once in a while:-) I have plenty of that myself.
> > > > >
> > > > > I will change 1 to _Q_LOCKED_VAL as suggested.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Longman
> > > > The attached patch file contains the additional changes that I had
> > > > made to qspinlock.c file so far. Please let me know if you or others
> > > > have any additional feedbacks or changes that will need to go to the
> > > > next version of the patch series.
> > > >
> > > > I am going to take vacation starting from tomorrow and will be back
> > > > on 5/5 (Mon). So I will not be able to respond to emails within this
> > > > period.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, is there any chance that this patch can be merged to 3.16?
> > > Um, it needs to have Acks from KVM and Xen maintainers who have not
> > > done so. Also Peter needs to chime in. (BTW, please CC
> > > xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx next time you post so that David and Boris
> > > can take a peek at it).
> > I will cc xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when I sent out the next patch.
> >
> > > I would strongly recommend you put all your patches on github (free git
> > > service) so that we can test it and poke it at during your vacation
> > > (and even after).
> > I am not used to setting up a public repo in github. If I create a
> > repo there, should I put a snapshot of the whole kernel source tree
> > or just a portion of the relevant files as the base? With the later,
> > it won't be buildable.
> You just push your local branch. It should look like a normal
> Linux tree with your commits on top.

I will try that with my next version.

-Longman

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