Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750930AbWEIFcR (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:32:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751390AbWEIFcQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:32:16 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:51604 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbWEIFcQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 01:32:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 22:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: "Martin J. Bligh" cc: Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , Daniel Hokka Zakrisson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Steinbrink?= , greg@kroah.com, matthew@wil.cx, manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl_setlease defies lease_init assumptions In-Reply-To: <4460113C.9090609@mbligh.org> Message-ID: References: <445E80DD.9090507@hozac.com> <84144f020605080131r58ce2a93w6c7ba784a266bbeb@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020605080134q7e16f37fl385359c634ece8ca@mail.gmail.com> <1147104412.22096.8.camel@localhost> <1147116991.11282.3.camel@localhost> <4460113C.9090609@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 14 On Mon, 8 May 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Can't you use sparsemem instead? It solves the same problem without the > magic faulting, doesn't it? But sparsemem has more complex table lookups. Ultimately IA64 will move to sparsemem (I think) but we are not there yet and we would like to be sure that there are no performance regressions with that move. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/