On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:32PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:15:20 +0100 > > > The other thing is that the "how do I know if I can refcount the page > > behind this (mm,vaddr,pte) tuple" can be quite arch specific as well. > > And it is also non-trivial to do because that information can be dynamic > > depending on what driver mapped in that given tuple. > > Those are good points. I know what you mean though... it doesn't feel like it is perfect code just yet. However, given that it works on x86 and gives such good results today, I feel that I'd rather get this merged first, and then maybe when we get some more platforms on board and the code is a bit more mature then we can try to make it "nicer"... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
