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Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 19:57:05 +0200
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:39:43PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Would it be an idea to merge them into one, so the first patch
> introduces the right conventions directly?

The only reason this isn't merged into one, is that this requires
non obvious (not difficult though) to the core VM code. I wanted to
keep an obviously safe approach for 2.6.26. The other conventions are
only needed by XPMEM and XPMEM can't work without all other patches anyway.