Re: [PATCH 0/4] Current state of Vals patches and the file map lookup patches

[Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:24:33PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> I've pulled in the patches that Val posted and made a couple of
> minor changes. I also have what I think is just about what we
> need to reduce the overhead of file map scanning.

Great, thank you!

> Check'em out please folks.

I have a crumpled post-it note on my desk saying "valgrind automount."
How hard would this be to do while running the Connectathon suite?  It
would sure make me feel better about these patches.

> I'm a little concerned about the "fix kernel includes" patch because
> there should be more to it and I've altered it in line with that. I'm
> not sure if we should post a kernel patch first, pull in the updated
> kernel header files to the tar and finally make the other couple of
> changes then. But then I may have it wrong so check it out.

Yeah, there's a trade-off there.  I think the approach you've taken is
the most sensible, given that nothing makes me more insane than out of
sync user and kernel code.

-VAL