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| From | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t |
| Date | 2016-05-17 03:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rzBPY-6dy-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <rzBmV-5OI-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> wrote:
>
> This rest of the series converts the rwsem count variable to an atomic_long_t
> since it is used it as an atomic variable. This allows us to also remove
> the rwsem_atomic_{add,update} abstraction and reduce 100+ lines of code.
I would suggest you merge all the "remove rwsem_atomic_{add,update}"
patches into a single patch.
I don't see the advantage to splitting those up by architecture, and
it does add noise to the series.
Other than that it all looks fine to me.
Linus
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[RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 6/7] locking,s390: Remove s390 rwsem add and rwsem update Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 7/7] locking,asm-generic: Remove generic rwsem add and rwsem update definitions Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 5/7] locking,ia64: Remove ia64 rwsem add and rwsem update Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 1/7] locking/rwsem: Optimize write lock by reducing operations in slowpath Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 3/7] locking,x86: Remove x86 rwsem add and rwsem update Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
[RFC][PATCH 2/7] locking/rwsem: Convert sem->count to atomic_long_t Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 02:50 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-05-17 03:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-05-17 13:20 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-17 19:10 +0200
Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-05-20 08:30 +0200
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