Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 08:26:18 EST


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:21:44AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'm not one to toe the party line, but this really does seem innocuous
> and of more general use than GPFS. I'd say walking pagetables directly
> in fs and/or device drivers is more invasive wrt. VM internals than
> calling a well-established procedure, but that's just me.

GPFS is doing all that, too of course. Take a look at their glue code
at oss.software.ibm.com (and take a barf-bag with you while you're at
it..)

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