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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - GRU virtual -> physical translation
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:17:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711121736.18687570.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709191439.GA7307@sgi.com>

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:14:39 -0500 Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote:

> Open code the equivalent to follow_page(). This eliminates the
> requirement for an EXPORT of follow_page().

I'd prefer to export follow_page() - copying-n-pasting just to avoid
exporting the darn thing is silly.

> In addition, the code
> is optimized for the specific case that is needed by the GRU and only
> supports architectures supported by the GRU (ia64 & x86_64).

Unless you think that this alone justifies the patch?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 19:14 Jack Steiner
2008-07-11 19:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-14 14:52   ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-14 16:24     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-14 16:31       ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-14 19:50         ` Robin Holt
2008-07-14 20:01           ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-14 20:37           ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-14 21:52             ` Jack Steiner

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