Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:35:18 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) |
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* Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > >> After these patches, I don't think there is too much burden. The main > >> thing left really is just the objrmap stuff, but that is just handled > >> with a minimal 'dumb' algorithm that doesn't cost much. > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ok. What do you think about the sys_remap_file_pages_prot() thing that > > Paolo has done in a nicely split up form - does that complicate things > > in any fundamental way? That is what is useful to UML. > > Oracle would love it. You don't want to know how far back I've been > asked to backport that.
ok, cool! Then the first step would be for you to talk to Paolo and to pick up the patches, review them, nurse it in -mm, etc. Suffering in silence is just a pointless act of masochism, not an efficient upstream-merge tactic ;-)
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