Re: [patch 2/2] lockless get_user_pages

KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-27T02:53:26Z

> Aw, nobody likes fast_gup? ;)

Ah, I misunderstood your intention.
I thought you disklike fast_gup..

I don't dislike it :()

>
> Technically get_user_pages_lockless is wrong: the implementation may
> not be lockless so one cannot assume it will not take mmap sem and
> ptls.

agreed.

> But I do like to make it clear that it is related to get_user_pages.
> get_current_user_pages(), maybe? Hmm, that's harder to grep for
> both then I guess. get_user_pages_current?

Yeah, good name.