linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch] mmap: permute find_vma with find_vma

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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:13:22 +0800
From:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch] mmap: permute find_vma with find_vma_prev

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> And rarely is its prev search actually required.  Whereas there are lots
> of users of find_vma(), who want it to be as quick as possible: it should
> not be burdened with almost-never-needed extras.

Got, thanks.

> I don't know what you're referring to: what happened to LKML?

For a couple of days it has been not updated, just an advertisement at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/7/ and stale content at
https://lkml.org/lkml/last100/

Hillf
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