Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:06:34 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: copy_one_pte() |
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(cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all).
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:07 +0000 Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com> wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: > > > >> I had a look at copy_one_pte(). > >> I cannot see any ioproc_update_page() call, not even for the COW pages. > >> Is it intentional? > >> > > > > There is no such thing as ioproc_update_page in any mainline tree. > > You must be looking at some vendor tree with braindead patches applied. > > > > > It looks like this function exists as a part of patches to support > Quadrics NICs / RDMA (HPC platforms). The patches are there so the > driver doesn't need to pin pages, it can be informed of page updates > directly. A patch was submitted to l-k sometime in 2005.
Oh Dear.
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