From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Lockless pagecache perhaps for 2.6.18? Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:21:40 +1000 References: <20060323081100.GE26146@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060323081100.GE26146@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1568995.tqgjAY3qyE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603262021.46276.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Linux Memory Management List , Ingo Molnar List-ID: --nextPart1568995.tqgjAY3qyE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Nick. On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:11, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi, > > Would there be any objection to having my lockless pagecache patches > merged into -mm, for a possible mainline merge after 2.6.17 (ie. if/ > when the mm hackers feel comfortable with it). > > There are now just 3 patches: 15 files, 312 insertions, 81 deletions > for the core changes, including RCU radix-tree. (not counting those > last two I just sent you Andrew (VM_BUG_ON, find_trylock_page)) > > It is fairly well commented, and not overly complex (IMO) compared > with other lockless stuff in the tree now. > > My main motivation is to get more testing and more serious reviews, > rather than trying to clear a fast path into mainline. > > Nick Can I get a pointer to the patches and any docs please? Since I save the pa= ge=20 cache separately, I'd need a good understanding of the implications of the= =20 changes. Regards, Nigel --nextPart1568995.tqgjAY3qyE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEJms6N0y+n1M3mo0RAn9MAJ9RvlVVnPkcVz9p36uXW58JjULgkACbBSoL 17R0oxCV0C4tw9wbSTX7Q4k= =to0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1568995.tqgjAY3qyE-- -- 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