From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:30:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 00 of 12] mmu notifier #v13 In-Reply-To: <20080422194223.GT22493@sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <20080422182213.GS22493@sgi.com> <20080422184335.GN24536@duo.random> <20080422194223.GT22493@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Robin Holt Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Jack Steiner , Peter Zijlstra , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , Steve Wise , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , linux-mm@kvack.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Rusty Russell List-ID: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > putting it back into your patch/agreeing to it remaining in Andrea's > patch? If not, I think we can put this issue aside until Andrew gets > out of the merge window and can decide it. Either way, the patches > become much more similar with this in. One solution would be to separate the invalidate_page() callout into a patch at the very end that can be omitted. AFACIT There is no compelling reason to have this callback and it complicates the API for the device driver writers. Not having this callback makes the way that mmu notifiers are called from the VM uniform which is a desirable goal. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org