On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:30:53PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> One solution would be to separate the invalidate_page() callout into a
> patch at the very end that can be omitted. AFACIT There is no compelling
> reason to have this callback and it complicates the API for the device
> driver
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:51:16PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is the latest and greatest version of the mmu notifier patch #v13.
>
FWIW, I have updated the GRU driver to use this patch (plus the fixeups).
No problems. AFAICT, everything works.
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Robin Holt wrote:
> putting it back into your patch/agreeing to it remaining in Andrea's
> patch? If not, I think we can put this issue aside until Andrew gets
> out of the merge window and can decide it. Either way, the patches
> become much more similar with this in.
One
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> My patch order and API backward compatible extension over the patchset
> is done to allow 2.6.26 to fully support KVM/GRU and 2.6.27 to support
> XPMEM as well. KVM/GRU won't notice any difference once the support
> for XPMEM is added, but even if the
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:43:35PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:22:13PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > 1) invalidate_page: You retain an invalidate_page() callout. I believe
> > we have progressed that discussion to the point that it requires some
> > direction for An
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:22:13PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> 1) invalidate_page: You retain an invalidate_page() callout. I believe
> we have progressed that discussion to the point that it requires some
> direction for Andrew, Linus, or somebody in authority. The basics
> of the difference dis
I believe the differences between your patch set and Christoph's need
to be understood and a compromise approach agreed upon.
Those differences, as I understand them, are:
1) invalidate_page: You retain an invalidate_page() callout. I believe
we have progressed that discussion to the point tha
Hello,
This is the latest and greatest version of the mmu notifier patch #v13.
Changes are mainly in the mm_lock that uses sort() suggested by Christoph.
This reduces the complexity from O(N**2) to O(N*log(N)).
I folded the mm_lock functionality together with the mmu-notifier-core 1/12
patch to
