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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mm: ptl is not bloated if it fits in pointer
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:12:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131216101233.GV21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1312160053530.3066@eggly.anvils>

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 01:04:13AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> It's silly to force the 64-bit CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK architectures

So yes that's unfortunate, but why are people using that
GENERIC_LOCKBREAK stuff to begin with? Its atrocious, a much better path
would be to remove it.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-16 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16  9:04 Hugh Dickins
2013-12-16 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-16 13:50   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-12-17  0:29     ` Hugh Dickins
2013-12-16 10:12 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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