From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4601B9DB.6040104@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:03:55 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associated helper macros. References: <20070319200502.17168.17175.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20070319200513.17168.52238.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <4600B216.3010505@yahoo.com.au> <1174490261.21684.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070321160051.GA5264@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070321160051.GA5264@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Adam Litke , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , William Lee Irwin III , Ken Chen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > >>>Also, it is going to be hugepage-only, isn't it? So should the naming be >>>changed to reflect that? And #ifdef it... >> >>They are doing some interesting things on Cell that could take advantage >>of this. > > > That would be new to me. What we need on Cell is fixing up the > get_unmapped_area mess which Ben is working on now. > > And let me once again repeat that I don't like this at all. I'll > rather have a few ugly ifdefs in strategic places than a big object > oriented mess like this with just a single user. I think I agree that we'd need more than one user for this. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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