linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -V5 04/14] hugetlb: Use mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages

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Message-ID: <4F82754C.3060407@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:36:12 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, mgorman@...e.de, dhillf@...il.com,
	aarcange@...hat.com, mhocko@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V5 04/14] hugetlb: Use mmu_gather instead of a temporary
 linked list for accumulating pages

(2012/04/07 3:50), Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Use mmu_gather instead of temporary linked list for accumulating pages when
> we unmap a hugepage range. This also allows us to get rid of i_mmap_mutex
> unmap_hugepage_range in the following patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>


seems nice to me.
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


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