linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v7

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802271624170.15965@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:24:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v7

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I'm not suggesting not to address the issues, just that those issues
> requires VM core changes, and likely those changes should be
> switchable under a CONFIG_XPMEM, so I see no reason to delay the mmu
> notifier until those changes are done and merged too. It's kind of a
> separate problem.

No its the core problem of the mmu notifier. It needs to be usable for a 
lot of scenarios.

 
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