Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932102AbYB1AZE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:25:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756858AbYB1AYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:24:54 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:49700 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756200AbYB1AYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:24:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:24:53 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Nick Piggin , Steve Wise , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Robin Holt , general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v7 In-Reply-To: <20080228002121.GC8091@v2.random> Message-ID: References: <20080219231157.GC18912@wotan.suse.de> <20080220010941.GR7128@v2.random> <20080220103942.GU7128@v2.random> <20080221045430.GC15215@wotan.suse.de> <20080221144023.GC9427@v2.random> <20080221161028.GA14220@sgi.com> <20080227192610.GF28483@v2.random> <20080227234317.GM28483@v2.random> <20080228002121.GC8091@v2.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 17 On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I'm not suggesting not to address the issues, just that those issues > requires VM core changes, and likely those changes should be > switchable under a CONFIG_XPMEM, so I see no reason to delay the mmu > notifier until those changes are done and merged too. It's kind of a > separate problem. No its the core problem of the mmu notifier. It needs to be usable for a lot of scenarios. -- 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/