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Message-ID: <20060801211410.GH2654@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:14:10 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>, akpm@...l.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@...cam.ac.uk>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de>,
Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@...ibm.com>,
Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 13] Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range
* Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com) wrote:
> - You don't handle huge pages. For a generic function
> that sounds like a problem.
> - I believe there is a reason the kernel doesn't already have
> a function like this. I seem to recall there being efficiency
> and fast path arguments.
> - Placing this code in mm/memory.c without a common consumer is
> pure kernel bloat for everyone who doesn't use this function,
> which is just about everyone.
We got the opposite feedback the first time we posted this function.
Xen has some users, and I believe there's a couple in-tree functions we could
convert easily w/out overhead issues. It's generic and this is just the
infrastructure, I think we should leave it.
thanks,
-chris
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