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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:07:59 +0000
Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, davem@redhat.com, raybry@sgi.com, ak@muc.de, manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vrajesh@umich.edu, hugh@veritas.com

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:02:47 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> I have the similar issues with the page scalability patch. Should I not do
> the legacy thing for platforms that do not have atomic pte operations?
> '

I think your situation is different.  The set_pte() changes are modifying
the arguments of an existing interface.

Your changes are adding support for taking advantage of a facility
that may or may not exist on a platform.