Re: Resurrecting the VM_PINNED discussion

Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-05T20:46:43Z

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Eric B Munson wrote:
> All,
>
> After LSF/MM last year Peter revived a patch set that would create
> infrastructure for pinning pages as opposed to simply locking them.
> AFAICT, there was no objection to the set, it just needed some help
> from the IB folks.
>
> Am I missing something about why it was never merged?

Because I got lost in IB code and didn't manage to bribe anyone into
fixing that for me.