On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:02:46AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > I'll go back and try to see why the page flag contention patch didn't > > get applied. > > Ahh, a combination of warring patches by Nick and PeterZ, and worry > about the page flag bits.
I think Nick actually had a patch freeing up a pageflag, although Hugh had a comment on that. That said, I'm not a huge fan of his waiters patch, I'm still not sure why he wants to write another whole wait loop, but whatever. Whichever you prefer I suppose.
