Re: scalable kmap (was Re: vm lock contention reduction)

Linus Torvalds
2002-07-07T19:02:51Z

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We do actually have an alternate approach: get rid of the "kmap()" in
> file_send_actor() altogether, and require targets of sendfile() to always
> support the sendpage() interface (which can do a kmap at a lower level if
> they need to - it's not even guaranteed that they do need to).

Ok, I'm going to just check that in to 2.5.x, and see who (if anybody)
screams.

Linus