From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com [216.82.255.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EEF6B01A6 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:43:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:42:48 -0700 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages scanning Message-ID: <20110622004248.GR25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <201106212055.25400.nai.xia@gmail.com> <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> <20110621214233.GN25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <201106220802.35349.nai.xia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106220802.35349.nai.xia@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Nai Xia Cc: Chris Wright , Andrew Morton , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , linux-mm , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 05:42:33 you wrote: > > * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > > > This patch makes the page_check_address() can validate if a subpage is > > > in its place in a huge page pointed by the address. This can be useful when > > > ksm does not split huge pages when looking up the subpages one by one. > > > > Just a quick heads up...this patch does not compile by itself. Could you > > do a little patch cleanup? Start with just making sure the Subject: is > > correct for each patch. Then make sure the 3 are part of same series. > > And finally, make sure each is stand alone and complilable on its own. > > Oh, indeed, there is a kvm & mmu_notifier related patch not named in a series. > But with a same email thread ID, I think Right, in same thread, but it ends up with: [PATCH 1/2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages... [PATCH] mmu_notifier, kvm: Introduce dirty bit... [PATCH 2/2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages... Not a big deal, but also easy to fix up ;) > .... I had thought it's ok... > I'll reformat this patch set to fullfill these requirements. thanks, -chris -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org