[PATCH 08/14] Add manual for lock elision

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 06/28/2013 01:21 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:12:31PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 06/28/2013 10:50 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:09:25AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> On 06/28/2013 01:51 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>>> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> pthreads are not described in the documentation, but I decided to document
>>>>> lock elision there at least.
>>>>
>>>> Can we please split this into two manual patches?
>>>
>>> No, the constants conflicts with the environment patches are already a
>>> nightmare.  If that's a requirement I'll rather remove most of the manual.
>>
>> I don't mind doing the work here.
> 
> The problem is I have to fix the conflicts with the environment
> variable patch all the time, every time you make me change
> something (and you make me change something all the time)
> 
>>
>> If you want I can checkin a minimal documentation patch.
> 
> The state without the tuning interfaces should be on only 
> very temporary (a few days I hope). So it can survive without manual
> I think.

If it's temporary then you shouldn't mind if we checkin
a temporary manual patch that ensures we have something
in place for 2.18?

I would really like the state of master to be consistent
and complete with respect to the baseline feature support
we're putting into it.

Cheers,
Carlos.