From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:21:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108682463.28873.1.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050217230342.GA3115@wotan.suse.de>
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers
> in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c
> While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several
> times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we
> have a big pressing problem here...
We have about 50% of them in memory.c :) But my main problem is more
that every single of them is implemented slightly differently.
Going Nick's way is a good start. If they are all consolidated to use
the same macro, they will be easier for you to change later on anyway.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-17 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-17 13:53 [PATCH 1/2] optimise copy page range Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-17 16:13 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 19:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-17 23:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 23:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-02-17 23:34 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 23:30 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-17 23:57 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-20 12:35 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-21 6:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-21 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 7:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-21 8:09 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-21 9:04 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-22 9:54 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23 2:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-23 4:31 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-23 4:49 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23 4:57 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-23 5:23 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23 23:52 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24 0:00 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-24 5:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24 5:59 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24 11:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24 19:33 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-25 10:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-24 21:59 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24 22:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24 22:52 ` Nick Piggin
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