From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3Q7de9s069682 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:39:40 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k3Q7ejMs107842 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:40:45 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k3Q7ddtW014430 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:39:39 +0200 Subject: Re: Page host virtual assist patches. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <444EC953.6060309@yahoo.com.au> References: <20060424123412.GA15817@skybase> <20060424180138.52e54e5c.akpm@osdl.org> <444DCD87.2030307@yahoo.com.au> <1145953914.5282.21.camel@localhost> <444DF447.4020306@yahoo.com.au> <1145964531.5282.59.camel@localhost> <444E1253.9090302@yahoo.com.au> <1145974521.5282.89.camel@localhost> <444EC953.6060309@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:39:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1146037185.5192.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, rhim@cc.gatech.edu List-ID: On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:13 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > OK, we'll agree to disagree for now :) > > I did start looking at the code but as you can see I only reviewed > patch 1 before getting sidetracked. I'll try to find some more time > to look at in the next few days. Thanks Nick, that would be greatly appreciated. The code is hard to understand, it's memory races squared. Races of the hypervisor actions against races in the Linux mm. Lovely. It took use quite a while to get that beast working, on z/VM, Linux and the millicode. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org