Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:04:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> So I'd like to know what can we do to help to merge the 4 patches from
> Christoph in mainline, I'd appreciate comments on them so we can help
> to address any outstanding issue!

There are still some pending issues (RCU troubles). I will post V2 today.
 
> It's very important to have this code in 2.6.25 final. KVM requires
> mmu notifiers for reliable swapping, madvise/ballooning, ksm etc... so
> it's high priority to get something merged to provide this
> functionality regardless of its coding style ;).

We also need this urgently.
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