linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/11] Text Edit Lock for 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:11:22 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] Text Edit Lock for 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

* Christoph Hellwig (hch@...radead.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:10:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:06:01 -0400
> > Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Here are the text edit lock patches ported to 2.6.23-rc6-mm1.
> > 
> > I think I'll duck these one more time.  There was a bit of followup
> > and for now I'd prefer to concentrate on obviously-safe stuff and
> > stabilisation of the current 2.6.24 queue.
> 
> As much as I'd love to see markers as soon as possible I have to agree.
> 
> I really hate how the first post of a handfull easy patches touching
> almost no core code has turned into this gigantic series.
> 
> Matthew, any chance you could resurrect a trivial, no-optimizations
> marker variant that has so little impact it could go into 2.6.24?
> 
> I'd really love to have the infrastructure there so we can add optimizations
> in parallel with actually adding the users to the tree.

Sure, I'll prepare that.

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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