linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:08:22 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:33:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, npiggin@...e.de wrote:
> > 
> > I've decided to submit the speculative page references patch to get merged.
> > I think I've now got enough reasons to get it merged. Well... I always
> > thought I did, I just didn't think anyone else thought I did. If you know
> > what I mean.
> 
> So I'd certainly like to see these early in the 2.6.27 series. 
 
Oh good ;) So would I!


> Nick, will you just re-send them once 2.6.26 is out? Or do they cause 
> problems for Andrew and he wants to be part of the chain? I'm fine with 
> either.

Andrew has picked them up by the looks, and he's my favoured channel to
get mm work merged. Let's see how things go between now and 2.6.26,
which I assume should be a few weeks away?

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