On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 20:46 -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > Hmm, well to his defense, he isn't adding DIE_NMI_IPI. That code is > already there. He is just re-arranging it, making it look painfully > obvious the die_chain probably isn't as efficient as it should be. > > I think a bunch of us agree that we need to revamp the NMI notifier to > make it less wasteful. I was hoping we could do that in a separate patch > that would be layered on top of Huangs. > > Would you object to at least consider having this patch series in a > work-in-progress git branch that we can build on top of, with the final > outcome containing an nmi notifier that meets your expectations? What's the point of keeping it in a git tree? Its just a few patches. We've spend more time talking about this than it would take to actually do the patch that kills DIE_NMI_IPI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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