From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:51:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: Lockless pagecache perhaps for 2.6.18? In-Reply-To: <20060323081100.GE26146@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20060323081100.GE26146@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Linux Memory Management List , Ingo Molnar List-ID: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Would there be any objection to having my lockless pagecache patches > merged into -mm, for a possible mainline merge after 2.6.17 (ie. if/ > when the mm hackers feel comfortable with it). No objection from me (though I've still to study it). But the timing should be as suits Andrew and state of -mm tree. > There are now just 3 patches: 15 files, 312 insertions, 81 deletions > for the core changes, including RCU radix-tree. (not counting those > last two I just sent you Andrew (VM_BUG_ON, find_trylock_page)) Sounds reasonable (and I've come to prefer 3 patches to 141). > It is fairly well commented, and not overly complex (IMO) compared > with other lockless stuff in the tree now. > > My main motivation is to get more testing and more serious reviews, > rather than trying to clear a fast path into mainline. Yes, please let's not presuppose it'll go into 2.6.18: that will depend on what confidence it acquires in -mm. Hugh -- 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