Re: [PATCH] pretest pte_young and pte_dirty

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:16:59 +0100 (BST), Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

  Hugh> Test for pte_young before going to the costlier atomic
  Hugh> test_and_clear, as asm-generic does.  Test for pte_dirty
  Hugh> before going to the costlier atomic test_and_clear, as
  Hugh> asm-generic does (I said before that I would not do so for
  Hugh> pte_dirty, but was missing the point: there is nothing atomic
  Hugh> about deciding to do nothing).  But I've not touched the
  Hugh> rather different ppc and ppc64.

The ia64-portion of the patch looks good to me.

Thanks!

	--david
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