From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dougg@torque.net
Subject: Re: [patch] sg: simplify page_count manipulations
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:15:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060121101543.GB9551@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601201623480.6415@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:32:00PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > I suspect nobody tried to munmap pages beyond the first one.
> >
> > Yes, let's use a compound page in there and I expect Doug will be able to
> > test it for us sometime.
>
> That function did move page along in 2.6.15, but has got screwed up since:
> good reason, I think, to speed Nick's patch through to clean it all away.
>
Sorry, I'm wrong then (about the conversation around the initial patch).
Definitely restore 2.6.15 behaviour for 2.6.16 if you are hesitant to
change it. Doug's call I guess.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-21 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060118155242.GB28418@wotan.suse.de>
2006-01-19 3:59 ` [patch] sg: simplify page_count manipulations Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 14:45 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-19 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 10:18 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-20 10:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 16:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-21 10:15 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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