From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:23:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] emm: notifier logic In-Reply-To: <20080407071330.GH9309@duo.random> Message-ID: References: <20080404223048.374852899@sgi.com> <20080404223131.469710551@sgi.com> <20080405005759.GH14784@duo.random> <20080407060602.GE9309@duo.random> <20080407071330.GH9309@duo.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Robin Holt , "Paul E. McKenney" , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , general@lists.openfabrics.org, steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: It may also be useful to allow invalidate_start() to fail in some contexts (try_to_unmap f.e., maybe if a certain flag is passed). This may allow the device to get out of tight situations (pending I/O f.e. or time out if there is no response for network communications). But then that complicates the API. -- 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