From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx134.postini.com [74.125.245.134]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 809336B005D for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:13:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50C5FC06.8020104@tilera.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:13:10 -0500 From: Chris Metcalf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area() References: <1354810175-4338-1-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com> <1354810175-4338-2-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1354810175-4338-2-git-send-email-js1304@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, Guan Xuetao , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" On 12/6/2012 11:09 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific > virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose > and more efficient, because it uses a rbtree. > So change it. If you get an Acked-by for the x86 change, feel free to apply it to the tile file as well. You'll note that for tile it's under an #if 0, which in retrospect I shouldn't have pushed anyway. So I don't feel strongly :-) FWIW, the change certainly seems at least plausible to me. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.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