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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: get_user_pages -> get_user_pages_fast
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On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:52 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> We probably should set a limit on the number of pages, too:
> currently there could be a large # of very small chunks in the iovec.

Well, there's also the gup_fast batch stuff that I keep forgetting to
push:

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/24/457

Which would solve that part.