On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:46:27AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Aw, nobody likes fast_gup? ;) > > Ah, I misunderstood your intention. > I thought you disklike fast_gup.. > > I don't dislike it :() > > > > > Technically get_user_pages_lockless is wrong: the implementation may > > not be lockless so one cannot assume it will not take mmap sem and > > ptls. > > agreed. > > > > But I do like to make it clear that it is related to get_user_pages. > > get_current_user_pages(), maybe? Hmm, that's harder to grep for > > both then I guess. get_user_pages_current? > > Yeah, good name. Hmm, although now that I think about it more, fast_gup is not _quite_ just a get_user_pages for "current". In particular it requires a bit of thought as to whether the pages are likely to require page faults or not... so I've called it get_user_pages_fast() -- 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
