From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API (V2)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070321160107.GB5264@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703211549220.32077@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:55:54PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Adam Litke wrote:
> > Andrew, given the favorable review of these patches the last time around, would
> > you consider them for the -mm tree? Does anyone else have any objections?
>
> I quite fail to understand the enthusiasm for these patches. All they
> do is make the already ugly interfaces to hugetlb more obscure than at
> present, and open the door to even uglier stuff later. Don't you need
> to wait for at least one other user of these interfaces to emerge,
> to get a better idea of whether they're appropriate?
*nod*
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-19 20:05 [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API (V2) Adam Litke
2007-03-19 20:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associated helper macros Adam Litke
2007-03-20 23:24 ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-21 14:50 ` Adam Litke
2007-03-21 15:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-21 4:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 4:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 5:07 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 5:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 6:51 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 7:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 10:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 15:17 ` Adam Litke
2007-03-21 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-21 23:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 23:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-21 23:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-19 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] copy_vma for hugetlbfs Adam Litke
2007-03-19 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] pin_pages for hugetlb Adam Litke
2007-03-19 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] unmap_page_range " Adam Litke
2007-03-20 23:27 ` Dave Hansen
2007-03-19 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] change_protection " Adam Litke
2007-03-19 20:06 ` [PATCH 6/7] free_pgtable_range " Adam Litke
2007-03-19 20:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] hugetlbfs fault handler Adam Litke
2007-03-20 23:50 ` [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API (V2) Dave Hansen
2007-03-21 1:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 15:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-21 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-03-21 16:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 17:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-21 17:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 19:43 ` pagetable_ops: Hugetlb character device example Adam Litke
2007-03-21 19:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-03-21 20:26 ` Adam Litke
2007-03-21 22:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-21 22:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-21 23:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-22 0:31 ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-22 10:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-22 15:42 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-22 18:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-23 14:57 ` Mel Gorman
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