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

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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.

> 
> -Longman
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