From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Cameron Davies Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:22:12 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/29] Page Table Interface Explanation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070113024540.29682.27024.sendpatchset@weill.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Paul Davies , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > I am glad to see that this endeavor is still going forward. I will be working hard to make this happen over the coming period of time. I will take your feedback, talk to my colleagues, and come up with a new version after LCA. >> unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long len); > > Why do we need so many individual specialized iterators? Isnt there some > way to have a common iterator function? Yes - and this is the intention. However, I thought that it might be easier to get the page table interface into the kernel by doing it in stages. I was worried a common iterator function represented too much change too quickly. Cheers Paul -- 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