From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:01:41 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Message-ID: <20040219190141.A26888@infradead.org> References: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040218140021.GB1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218211035.A13866@infradead.org> <20040218150607.GE1269@us.ibm.com> <20040218222138.A14585@infradead.org> <20040218145132.460214b5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040218230055.A14889@infradead.org> <20040218153234.3956af3a.akpm@osdl.org> <20040219123237.B22406@infradead.org> <20040219105608.30d2c51e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040219105608.30d2c51e.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:56:08AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@osdl.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:56:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > inter-node cache consistency. Other distributed filesystems will need this > and probably AIX already provides it. You've probably not seen the AIX VM architecture. Good for you as it's not good for your stomache. I did when I still was SCAldera and although my NDAs don't allow me to go into details I can tell you that the AIX VM architecture is deeply tied into the segment architecture of the Power CPU and signicicantly different from any other UNIX variant. So porting code from AIX that touches anything VM related is a complete rewrite. Nice argumentation though, for everything but AIX it might actually have worked :) -- 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: aart@kvack.org