Re: [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup

Nick Piggin
2008-06-06T00:08:22Z

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:33:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, npiggin@suse.de wrote:
> >
> > I've decided to submit the speculative page references patch to get merged.
> > I think I've now got enough reasons to get it merged. Well... I always
> > thought I did, I just didn't think anyone else thought I did. If you know
> > what I mean.
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> So I'd certainly like to see these early in the 2.6.27 series.

Oh good ;) So would I!

> Nick, will you just re-send them once 2.6.26 is out? Or do they cause
> problems for Andrew and he wants to be part of the chain? I'm fine with
> either.

Andrew has picked them up by the looks, and he's my favoured channel to
get mm work merged. Let's see how things go between now and 2.6.26,
which I assume should be a few weeks away?