Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:44:02 +0200 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [11/19] HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 |
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On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:41:12PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > One question I had for the others (Andrew? other mm guys?) what is the > > feelings of merging this feature? Leaving aside exact implementation > > and just considering the high level design and cost/benefit. Last time > > there were some people objecting, so I wonder the situation now? So > > does anybody need more convincing? :) > > The main objection last time was that it was a bit too late in the > release schedule. > > I can't remember anyone really questioning the basic feature itself.
I can't exactly remember. Maybe it was in a thread with Alan and/or Arjan ;) I don't think the feature itself was questioned as much as cost/benefit. Maybe I was wrong...
I just want to see everyone is happy with the basic idea ;)
> > Also I will just cc linux-arch. It would be interesting to know whether > > powerpc, ia64, or s390 or others would be interested to use this feature? > > ia64 is interested (but no code so far) I talked to DaveM and he seems to be > interested for sparc too. I would expect other server architectures to > eventually use it as they get around to writing the necessary architecture > specific glue.
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