From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <20080605094300.295184000@nick.local0.net> References: <20080605094300.295184000@nick.local0.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:32:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1212787964.19205.74.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:43 +1000, npiggin@suse.de wrote: > Hi, > > I've decided to submit the speculative page references patch to get merged. > I think I've now got enough reasons to get it merged. Well... I always > thought I did, I just didn't think anyone else thought I did. If you know > what I mean. > > cc'ing the powerpc guys specifically because everyone else who probably > cares should be on linux-mm... > > So speculative page references are required to support lockless pagecache and > lockless get_user_pages (on architectures that can't use the x86 trick). Other > uses for speculative page references could also pop up, it is a pretty useful > concept. Doesn't need to be pagecache pages either. For patches 1-5 Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra -- 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