From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/11] Shared Policy Overview In-Reply-To: <1183123347.5037.17.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20070625195224.21210.89898.sendpatchset@localhost> <1182968078.4948.30.camel@localhost> <200706280001.16383.ak@suse.de> <1183038137.5697.16.camel@localhost> <1183123347.5037.17.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Andi Kleen , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, nacc@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "rationale for this patchset" in the > context of this reference counting patch. We've already gone over the > rationale for shared policy on shared file mappings--over and over... Yes and its still not clear to me what the point is. I think sharing policies that have so far per process semantics wil break things and cause a lot of difficulty in the future. -- 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