From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:46:04 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests In-Reply-To: <20041201165538.015ee7a6.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20041201165538.015ee7a6.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , hugh@veritas.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Ok, consider me convinced. I don't want to apply this before I get 2.6.10 > > out the door, but I'm happy with it. > > There were concerns about some architectures relying upon page_table_lock > for exclusivity within their own pte handling functions. Have they all > been resolved? The patch will fall back on the page_table_lock if an architecture cannot provide atomic pte operations. -- 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: aart@kvack.org