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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	npiggin@suse.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	travis@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	arjan@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] cpus4096 tree, part 3
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:21:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090126232139.GA29561@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <604427e00901261312w23a1f0f5y61fc5c6cc70297fb@mail.gmail.com>


* Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> wrote:

> Thank you Ingo and Andrew for the comments. I will take a look into it 
> ASAP and updates it here.

Note, my objection wasnt a hard NAK - just an observation. If all things 
considered Andrew still favors the VM_FAULT_RETRY approach then that's 
fine too i guess.

It's just that a quick look gave me the feeling of a retry flag tacked on 
to an existing codepath [and all the micro-overhead and complexity that 
this brings], instead of a clean refactoring of pagefault handling 
functionality into a higher MM level retry loop.

So the alternative has to be looked at and rejected because it's 
technically inferior - not because it's more difficult to implement. 
(which it certainly is)

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-01-05  1:16                   ` [git pull] cpus4096 tree, part 3 Nick Piggin
2009-01-26 19:00                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-26 19:09                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-26 19:30                         ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-26 20:09                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-26 20:44                         ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]                           ` <604427e00901261312w23a1f0f5y61fc5c6cc70297fb@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-26 23:21                             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-26 23:44                               ` Andrew Morton

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