Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 0/2] put_user_page*(): start converting the call sites | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2018 17:10:28 +0000 |
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From: john.hubbard@gmail.com > Sent: 04 December 2018 00:17 > > Summary: I'd like these two patches to go into the next convenient cycle. > I *think* that means 4.21. > > Details > > At the Linux Plumbers Conference, we talked about this approach [1], and > the primary lingering concern was over performance. Tom Talpey helped me > through a much more accurate run of the fio performance test, and now > it's looking like an under 1% performance cost, to add and remove pages > from the LRU (this is only paid when dealing with get_user_pages) [2]. So > we should be fine to start converting call sites. > > This patchset gets the conversion started. Both patches already had a fair > amount of review.
Shouldn't the commit message contain actual details of the change?
David
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