From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Till Smejkal Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:50:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20170316175033.pgkep75iszqy3csb@arch-dev> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Till Smejkal , Andy Lutomirski , Andy Lutomirski , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Vineet Gupta , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Miao , Richard Kuo , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , James Hogan , Ralf Baechle , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Till Smejkal wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Why do we need yet another mechanism to represent something which looks > > > like a file instead of simply using existing mechanisms and extend them? > > > > You are right. I also recognized during the discussion with Andy, Chris, > > Matthew, Luck, Rich and the others that there are already other > > techniques in the Linux kernel that can achieve the same functionality > > when combined. As I said also to the others, I will drop the VAS segments > > for future versions. The first class virtual address space feature was > > the more interesting part of the patchset anyways. > > While you are at it, could you please drop this 'first class' marketing as > well? It has zero technical value, really. Yes of course. I am sorry for the trouble that I caused already. Thanks Till -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: aart@kvack.org