From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 18:41:13 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060525135534.20941.91650.sendpatchset@lappy> <20060525135555.20941.36612.sendpatchset@lappy> <24747.1148653985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <12042.1148976035@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <7966.1149006374@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Howells , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Martin Bligh , Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Tue, 30 May 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > Your original question, whether they could be combined, was a good one; > > and I hoped you'd be right. But I agree with David, they cannot, unless > > we sacrifice the guarantee that one or the other is there to give. It's > > much like the relationship between ->prepare_write and ->commit_write. > > Ok, so separate patch sets? They are separate patch sets (and rc5-mm1 has David's without Peter's). But they trample on nearby areas and share infrastructure, so I'm happy that they're looked at together. Peter has helpfully arranged his to go on top of David's: that can be reversed later if it's decided that Peter's is wanted but David's not. 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