[PATCH 08/14] Add manual for lock elision

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:07:29PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 02:01 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > On 06/28/2013 01:42 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >> Are you saying you want to ship 2.18 without the tuning 
> >> interfaces?
> > 
> > No. I'm saying that all commits to master should be
> > transiently correct at all times.
> 
> For avoidance of doubt I expect a single commit to add
> all of the baseline elision work to glibc.

The patches were designed to be bisectable, so there
should be no real reason to not keep my ordering.

> That way if someone cherry-picks just that commit they
> get a sensible set of patches and a sensible manual.

I don't think the interface-less variant is particularly
useful on its own, so I hope noone is doing that.

AFAIK all the previous objections to the in program
tuning interfaces have been addressed anyways,
so they should be mergeable for 2.18.

-Andi
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