linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm

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Message-ID: <50C5FC06.8020104@tilera.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:13:10 -0500
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<kexec@...ts.infradead.org>, Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()

On 12/6/2012 11:09 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific
> virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose
> and more efficient, because it uses a rbtree.
> So change it.

If you get an Acked-by for the x86 change, feel free to apply it to the tile file as well.  You'll note that for tile it's under an #if 0, which in retrospect I shouldn't have pushed anyway.  So I don't feel strongly :-)

FWIW, the change certainly seems at least plausible to me.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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