On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > by it ;) To prove my point: the *first* approach I posted to fix this > problem was exactly a patch to special-case the zero_page refcounting > which was removed with my PageReserved patch. Neither Hugh nor yourself > liked it one bit!
True (speaking for me; I forget whether Linus ever got to see it). I apologize to you, Nick, for getting you into this position of fighting for something which wasn't your choice in the first place. If I thought we'd have a better kernel by dropping this patch and going back to one that just avoids the refcounting, I'd say do it. No, I still think it's worth trying this one first. But best have your avoid-the-refcounting patch ready and reviewed for emergency use if regression does show up somewhere. Thanks, Hugh [My mails out are at present getting randomly delayed by six hours or so, which makes it extra hard for me to engage usefully in any thread.] - 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/