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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:02:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: scalable kmap (was Re: vm lock contention reduction)
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We do actually have an alternate approach: get rid of the "kmap()" in
> file_send_actor() altogether, and require targets of sendfile() to always
> support the sendpage() interface (which can do a kmap at a lower level if
> they need to - it's not even guaranteed that they do need to).

Ok, I'm going to just check that in to 2.5.x, and see who (if anybody)
screams.

		Linus

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