From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove global locks from mm/highmem.c
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:14:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202231402.GA33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070202120511.GA25714@infradead.org>
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:05:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:22:24PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > > Yup. Even better, use clear_highpage().
> >
> > For even more goodness, clearmem_highpage_flush() does exactly
> > the right thing for partial page zeroing ;)
>
> Note that there are tons of places in buffer.c that could use
> clearmem_highpage_flush(). See the so far untested patch below:
Runs through XFSQA just fine. Looks good to me, Christoph.
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-02 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-28 14:11 Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-28 14:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-28 15:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-28 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-28 15:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-28 15:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-28 18:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-28 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-29 2:52 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-29 9:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-30 1:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-01-30 1:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-30 1:49 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-01-30 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-31 0:44 ` David Chinner
2007-01-31 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-31 3:22 ` David Chinner
2007-02-02 12:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-02 19:24 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 23:16 ` David Chinner
2007-02-02 23:14 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-01-29 19:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-29 19:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-29 19:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-29 20:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-30 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
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