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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Robert Macaulay <robert_macaulay@dell.com>,
	Craig Kulesa <ckulesa@as.arizona.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bob Matthews <bmatthews@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:26:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010928032655.H14277@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010928013730.Y14277@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109272050570.19147-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0109272050570.19147-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0300

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:51:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > well this approch is much less finegrined...
> 
> I'd consider that a feature. Undocumented subtle stuff
> tends to break within 6 months, sometimes even due to
> changes made by the same person who did the original
> subtle trick.

by the same argument we could drop the NOHIGHIO logic in first place.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-28  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-26 13:38 VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff) Craig Kulesa
2001-09-26 14:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-26 14:23   ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-26 14:49     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-26 18:17       ` Robert Macaulay
2001-09-26 18:36         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-27 22:13           ` highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)] Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-27 22:55             ` J . A . Magallon
2001-09-27 23:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 23:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 23:37                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-27 23:51                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-28  1:26                     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-09-28  1:28                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 23:47               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  0:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-28  0:11                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28  2:12                 ` Robert Macaulay
2001-09-28  2:24                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-28 13:36                     ` Robert Macaulay
2001-09-28 14:02                     ` LILO causes segmentation fault and panic [was Re: highmem deadlock fix] Robert Macaulay
2001-09-28  0:08               ` highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)] Andrea Arcangeli

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