Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

Andrew Morton
2005-09-02T02:10:28Z

Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com> wrote:
>
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> > On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:07, Hiro Yoshioka wrote:
> >
> > > The following is the almost final version of the
> > > cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll() patch.
> >
> > Looks good to me.
> >
> > Once the filemap.c hunk is in I'll probably do something
> > similar for x86-64.
>
> Thank you very much. What else should I do? Shall I just
> be waiting to check in the patch?
>

I suppose I'll queue it up in -mm for a while, although I'm a bit dubious
about the whole idea... We'll gain some and we'll lose some - how do we
know it's a net gain?