From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, aarcange@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: export mmu notifier invalidates
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:11:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213121149.25a0e3bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213150340.GJ3460@sgi.com>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:03:40 -0600
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> > But in a better world, the core kernel would support your machines
> > adequately and you wouldn't need to maintain that out-of-tree MM code.
> > What are the prospects of this?
>
> We can put it on our todo list. Getting a user of this infrastructure
> will require changes by Dimitri for the GRU driver (drivers/misc/sgi-gru).
> He is currently focused on getting the design of some upcoming hardware
> finalized and design changes tested in our simulation environment so he
> will be consumed for the next several months.
>
> If you would like, I can clean up the driver in my spare time and submit
> it for review. Would you consider allowing its inclusion without the
> GRU driver as a user?
>From Cliff's description it sounded like that driver is
duplicating/augmenting core MM functions. I was more wondering
whether core MM could be enhanced so that driver becomes obsolete?
> In the transition period, could we allow this change in and then remove
> the exports as part of that driver being accepted? That would help us
> with an upcoming distro release.
I'm OK with this patch for 3.9-rc1.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 21:35 [PATCH] mm: export mmu notifier invalidates Cliff Wickman
2013-02-12 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 15:03 ` Robin Holt
2013-02-13 20:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-02-13 21:03 ` Robin Holt
2013-02-14 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-14 21:35 ` Robin Holt
2013-02-14 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-14 22:25 ` Robin Holt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-04 15:41 Cliff Wickman
2013-01-04 21:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-01-04 22:09 ` Cliff Wickman
2013-01-07 14:14 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-07 15:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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