Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/7] speculative page references, lockless pagecache, lockless gup | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:32:44 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:43 +1000, npiggin@suse.de wrote: > Hi, > > I've decided to submit the speculative page references patch to get merged. > I think I've now got enough reasons to get it merged. Well... I always > thought I did, I just didn't think anyone else thought I did. If you know > what I mean. > > cc'ing the powerpc guys specifically because everyone else who probably > cares should be on linux-mm... > > So speculative page references are required to support lockless pagecache and > lockless get_user_pages (on architectures that can't use the x86 trick). Other > uses for speculative page references could also pop up, it is a pretty useful > concept. Doesn't need to be pagecache pages either.
For patches 1-5
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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