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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:15:57 -0500
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] use pinned_vm instead of locked_vm to account pinned
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:54:47PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This series converts users that account pinned pages with locked_vm to
> > account with pinned_vm instead, pinned_vm being the correct counter to
> > use.  It's based on a similar patch I posted recently[0].
> > 
> > The patches are based on rdma/for-next to build on Davidlohr Bueso's
> > recent conversion of pinned_vm to an atomic64_t[1].  Seems to make some
> > sense for these to be routed the same way, despite lack of rdma content?
> 
> Oy.. I'd be willing to accumulate a branch with acks to send to Linus
> *separately* from RDMA to Linus, but this is very abnormal.
> 
> Better to wait a few weeks for -rc1 and send patches through the
> subsystem trees.

Ok, I can do that.  It did seem strange, so I made it a question...