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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] jump label: introduce static_branch()
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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
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    > > 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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