From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, mgorman@suse.de,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, dhillf@gmail.com,
aarcange@redhat.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 1/9] mm: move hugetlbfs region tracking function to common code
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:07:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87linge07l.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301143345.7e928efe.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:33:45 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:46:12 +0530
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch moves the hugetlbfs region tracking function to
> > common code. We will be using this in later patches in the
> > series.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +struct file_region {
> > + struct list_head link;
> > + long from;
> > + long to;
> > +};
>
> Both Andrea Righi and John Stultz are working on (more sophisticated)
> versions of file region tracking code. And we already have a (poor)
> implementation in fs/locks.c.
>
> That's four versions of the same thing floating around the place. This
> is nutty.
We should be able to remove region.c once other alternatives are in
upstream. I will also look at the alternatives and see if it would need
any change to make it usable for this work.
Thanks,
-aneesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 9:16 [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 1/9] mm: move hugetlbfs region tracking function to common code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-04 17:37 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 2/9] mm: Update region function to take new data arg Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 3/9] hugetlbfs: Use the generic region API and drop local one Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 4/9] memcg: Add non reclaim resource tracking to memcg Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-02 8:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 18:07 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-08 5:56 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-08 11:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 5/9] hugetlbfs: Add memory controller support for shared mapping Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 6/9] hugetlbfs: Add memory controller support for private mapping Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-17 23:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 7/9] memcg: track resource index in cftype private Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 8/9] hugetlbfs: Add memcg control files for hugetlbfs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 9/9] memcg: Add memory controller documentation for hugetlb management Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 22:40 ` [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking Andrew Morton
2012-03-02 3:28 ` David Gibson
2012-03-04 18:09 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-06 2:38 ` David Gibson
2012-03-04 19:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-05 13:56 ` Hillf Danton
2012-03-06 14:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-02 5:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 18:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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