Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch() | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:04:53 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:44 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:43:59 -0500 > > > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:32 -0800, David Daney wrote: > > > >> This patch will conflict with the MIPS jump label support that Ralf has > >> queued up for 2.6.38. > > > > Can you disable that support for now? As Linus said at Kernel Summit, > > other archs jumped too quickly onto the jump label band wagon. > > I totally disagree with this assesment. Implementing jump label for > sparc64 as early as possible found so much broken stuff that otherwise > would have merged in before any other architecture tried supporting > it.
The issue here is that jump labels went in too fast. And I agree that having it ported to all archs is/was important. But the infrastructure needs to be cleaned up.
Probably best to get out the kinks in Linux next as suppose to mainline.
-- Steve
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