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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:43:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171910581.3531.89.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070219183123.27318.27319.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:31 -0800, Adam Litke wrote:
> The page tables for hugetlb mappings are handled differently than page tables
> for normal pages.  Rather than integrating multiple page size support into the
> main VM (which would tremendously complicate the code) some hooks were created.
> This allows hugetlb special cases to be handled "out of line" by a separate
> interface.

ok it makes sense to clean this up.. what I don't like is that there
STILL are all the double cases... for this to work and be worth it both
the common case and the hugetlb case should be using the ops structure
always! Anything else and you're just replacing bad code with bad
code ;(


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 18:31 Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associated helper macros Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:41   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-19 19:31     ` Adam Litke
2007-02-19 19:48   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-19 22:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-20 15:50     ` Mel Gorman
2007-02-19 18:31 ` [PATCH 2/7] copy_vma for hugetlbfs Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:31 ` [PATCH 3/7] pin_pages for hugetlb Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] unmap_page_range " Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] change_protection " Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] free_pgtable_range " Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] hugetlbfs fault handler Adam Litke
2007-02-19 18:43 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-02-19 19:34   ` [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API Adam Litke
2007-02-19 21:15     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-20 19:57       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-20 19:54   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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