From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755840AbcBINHB (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:07:01 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:35560 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751653AbcBING7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:06:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:06:55 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, vbabka@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, jack@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign" get_user_pages() Message-ID: <20160209130655.GA20998@gmail.com> References: <20160129181642.98E7D468@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20160129181644.74134A5D@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20160209124649.GA20153@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160209124649.GA20153@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ingo Molnar wrote: > Also, please split this into three patches: > > - one patch adds the _foreign() GUP variant and applies it to code that uses it > on remote tasks. This reminds me: please also rename the new API to get_user_pages_remote(), as remote/local is the phrase we typically use in MM code. Thanks, Ingo