Messages in this thread | | | From | "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V2 1/9] mm: move hugetlbfs region tracking function to common code | Date | Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:07:50 +0530 |
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:33:45 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:46:12 +0530 > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > This patch moves the hugetlbfs region tracking function to > > common code. We will be using this in later patches in the > > series. > > > > ... > > > > +struct file_region { > > + struct list_head link; > > + long from; > > + long to; > > +}; > > Both Andrea Righi and John Stultz are working on (more sophisticated) > versions of file region tracking code. And we already have a (poor) > implementation in fs/locks.c. > > That's four versions of the same thing floating around the place. This > is nutty.
We should be able to remove region.c once other alternatives are in upstream. I will also look at the alternatives and see if it would need any change to make it usable for this work.
Thanks, -aneesh
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