From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@gridcentric.ca>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Wait queue support for 4.3
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:26:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC9E1149.41994%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0768425-1A5C-45A5-8829-FCD1A7CA7D64@gridcentric.ca>
On 12/10/2012 17:43, "Andres Lagar-Cavilla" <andreslc@gridcentric.ca> wrote:
>>> The current maintainer (effectively) for wait queues is Keir. Keir, any
>>> ideas
>>> on a schedule for the cleanup?
>>
>> I maintain the wait-queue mechanism, but not every (potential) user of it!
>
> That's the end of my cunning scheme. It was worth a try ...
>
>> The only use-case above that might fall into my domain is 3, I think.
>
> So perhaps mm should wait for that to happen to then tackle wait queues for
> paging/sharing?
I don't see any dependency. And Tim has already proposed patches for
use-case 2, in fact, as you noted. So, shouldn't they simply be polished up
and applied as soon as possible? Basically, for mm type things, Tim is your
man, either as author or reviewer.
-- Keir
> Thanks,
> Andres
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-12 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-12 15:38 Wait queue support for 4.3 Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-10-12 16:30 ` Keir Fraser
2012-10-12 16:43 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-10-12 17:26 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2012-10-12 18:53 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2012-10-12 19:34 ` Keir Fraser
2012-10-15 13:47 ` George Dunlap
2012-10-15 14:12 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
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