From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: MMU notifiers review and some proposals
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:19:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4891C9D5.8000500@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731061419.GB32644@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> That's OK. We don't have to make decisions just by people supporting one
> way or the other, because I'll come up with some competing patches and
> if they turn out to be significantly simpler to the core VM without having
> a significant negative impact on performance then naturally everybody should
> be happy to merge them, so nobody has to argue with handwaving.
We make decisions based on technical issues. If you can come up with a solution that addresses the issues (please review the earlier discussion on the subject matter) then we will all be happy to see that merged.
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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: MMU notifiers review and some proposals
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:19:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4891C9D5.8000500@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731061419.GB32644@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> That's OK. We don't have to make decisions just by people supporting one
> way or the other, because I'll come up with some competing patches and
> if they turn out to be significantly simpler to the core VM without having
> a significant negative impact on performance then naturally everybody should
> be happy to merge them, so nobody has to argue with handwaving.
We make decisions based on technical issues. If you can come up with a solution that addresses the issues (please review the earlier discussion on the subject matter) then we will all be happy to see that merged.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 14:39 MMU notifiers review and some proposals Nick Piggin
2008-07-24 14:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-24 14:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-25 21:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-25 21:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 3:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 3:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 11:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 11:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 12:28 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 12:28 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 13:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 13:10 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:10 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 13:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-27 12:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 12:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 13:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-27 12:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 12:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-30 14:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-30 14:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-30 14:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-30 14:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-30 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-30 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-31 6:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-31 6:14 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-31 14:19 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-07-31 14:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-26 12:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 12:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:04 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 13:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-26 13:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-27 12:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 12:08 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-25 23:29 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-25 23:29 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-26 3:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-26 3:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-27 9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-27 12:38 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-27 12:38 ` Nick Piggin
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