Re: [PATCHSET percpu/for-3.17] percpu: clean up percpu accessor and operation definitions

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jun 19 2014 - 17:09:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:05:29PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > > linus master c31c24b8251f ("Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux")
> > > + [1] [PATCH RFC] percpu: add data dependency barrier in percpu accessors and operations
> >
> > Omitted the data dependency barrier and applied the series to
> > percpu/for-3.17.
>
> Ok I hope all of that dependency material is removed from the tree?

Hmmm? There was one RFC patch which I didn't apply. I'm leaning
towards just clearly documenting the init write ownership because that
seems more consistent but seriously no matter which way we go there's
*no* performance implication. I don't get why you're so fixated about
it.

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tejun
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