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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:09:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: Resurrecting the VM_PINNED discussion
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>, Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>, Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@intel.com>

On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Am I missing something about why it was never merged?
>
> Because I got lost in IB code and didn't manage to bribe anyone into
> fixing that for me.

Well the complexity increased since then with the on demand pinning,
mmu notifiers etc etc ...

I thought the clear distinction between pinning and mlocking would do the
trick?

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