Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763001AbZD3PBo (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:01:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762013AbZD3PBd (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:01:33 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:42281 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757801AbZD3PBc (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:01:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:59:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , KOSAKI Motohiro , Peter Zijlstra , thomas.pi@arcor.dea, Yuriy Lalym , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in redirty_page_for_writepage() Message-ID: <20090430145948.GB20580@elte.hu> References: <20090429232546.GB15782@Krystal> <20090430024303.GB19875@Krystal> <20090430133859.GB8329@elte.hu> <20090430135005.GA5922@Krystal> <20090430143215.GE14696@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 21 * Christoph Lameter wrote: > I am fine with how things developed. The core patches fell off the > priority list after job change. Just get the things that are not > right now straightened out. Regarding the __xxx ops i'm on two minds really. If there's a significant architecture that really cannot live without them (if it does not have the proper machine instructions _and_ local irq disabling is unreasonably expensive) then i guess we could (and should) add them. Otherwise we should just try to be as simple as possible. Ingo -- 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/