Re: [PATCH 0/9] rework of extended state handling, LWP support

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 05:24:05 EST



* Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> These patches were built and tested against 3.1. The older RFC
> patches that have been lingering in tip/x86/xsave for the last
> few months should be removed.

They have been lingering because of negative review feedback i
have given to you about LWP. I'm not convinced about the current
form of abstraction that this patch-set offers.

See this past discussion from half a year ago:

Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/8] x86, xsave: rework of extended state handling, LWP support

We can and should do better than that.

Thanks,

Ingo
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