Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757696Ab1FVAnV (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:43:21 -0400 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:51864 "EHLO sequoia.sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757196Ab1FVAnT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:43:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:42:48 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Nai Xia Cc: Chris Wright , Andrew Morton , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , linux-mm , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages scanning Message-ID: <20110622004248.GR25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <201106212055.25400.nai.xia@gmail.com> <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> <20110621214233.GN25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <201106220802.35349.nai.xia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106220802.35349.nai.xia@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1440 Lines: 33 * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 05:42:33 you wrote: > > * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > > > This patch makes the page_check_address() can validate if a subpage is > > > in its place in a huge page pointed by the address. This can be useful when > > > ksm does not split huge pages when looking up the subpages one by one. > > > > Just a quick heads up...this patch does not compile by itself. Could you > > do a little patch cleanup? Start with just making sure the Subject: is > > correct for each patch. Then make sure the 3 are part of same series. > > And finally, make sure each is stand alone and complilable on its own. > > Oh, indeed, there is a kvm & mmu_notifier related patch not named in a series. > But with a same email thread ID, I think Right, in same thread, but it ends up with: [PATCH 1/2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages... [PATCH] mmu_notifier, kvm: Introduce dirty bit... [PATCH 2/2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages... Not a big deal, but also easy to fix up ;) > .... I had thought it's ok... > I'll reformat this patch set to fullfill these requirements. thanks, -chris -- 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/