On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:50:29PM -0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> It's nearly impossible to name it right because 1) it indicates we can
> relinquish 2) it returns whether we still hold the mmap semaphore.
>
> I'd prefer it'd be called mmap_sem_hold, which conveys immediately
> what this is
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:50:29PM -0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
>> It's nearly impossible to name it right because 1) it indicates we can
>> relinquish 2) it returns whether we still hold the mmap semaphore.
>>
>> I'd prefer it'd be
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:54:46PM -0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Andrea Arcangeli
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:50:29PM -0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> >> It's nearly impossible to name it right because 1) it indicates we can
> >> relinquish
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:25:35PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> index bb48a57..12ea7c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/iovlock.c
> @@ -95,17 +95,11 @@ struct dma_pinned_list *dma_pin_iovec_pages(struct iovec
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 05:36:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For all these and the other _fast() users, is there an actual limit to
> the nr_pages passed in? Because we used to have the 64 pages limit from
> DIO, but without that we get rather long IRQ-off latencies.
Ok, I would tend to think
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:31:17PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 05:36:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > For all these and the other _fast() users, is there an actual limit to
> > the nr_pages passed in? Because we used to have the 64 pages limit from
> > DIO, but wit
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:50:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:31:17PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 05:36:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > For all these and the other _fast() users, is there an actual limit to
> > > the nr_pages pas
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:50:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:31:17PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 05:36:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > For all these and the
