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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][VER 4] mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:17:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920141740.aaa4d1d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070920203335.013542166F4@attica.americas.sgi.com>

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:33:34 -0500
cpw@sgi.com (Cliff Wickman) wrote:

> Stress testing revealed the need for more revision.
> This is a revision of Andrew's mspec-handle-shrinking-virtual-memory-areas.patch
> 
> Version 4: clear/release fetchop pages only when vma_data is no longer shared
> 
> Version 3: single thread the clearing of vma_data maddr[]
> Version 2: refcount maintained as atomic_t (as before the version 1 patch)
> 

Boy am I getting tired of this patch :(

Version #3943 was just merged into mainline, so can you please prepare
a diff against Linus's tree for #3944?

Ta.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 20:33 [PATCH][VER 4] mspec: handle shrinking virtual memory areas Cliff Wickman
2007-09-20 21:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2007-09-21  0:00 Cliff Wickman

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