Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:23:11 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:21:44AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'm not one to toe the party line, but this really does seem innocuous
> and of more general use than GPFS. I'd say walking pagetables directly
> in fs and/or device drivers is more invasive wrt. VM internals than
> calling a well-established procedure, but that's just me.

GPFS is doing all that, too of course.  Take a look at their glue code
at oss.software.ibm.com (and take a barf-bag with you while you're at
it..)

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