On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > I remain fairly dubious about this - it seems a fairly specific and > complex piece of work to speed up one extremely specific part of one type of > computer's one type of workload. Surely there's a better way :(
The patches provide the basis for more work on this issue. But we need to start somewhere. The specific issue addresses in the initial patchset is becoming a common case for multi-core applications. > The patches at present spit warnings or don't compile on lots of > architectures. x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 are OK. I have just sent a fix to you this morning when I got your messages. Sadly I do not have access to the architectures that failed (arm, alpha and ppc32) but the fix simply removes code that is not used for these arches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
