Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 21:27:00 EST


Hi, Peter.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patch series implementing speculative page faults for x86.
>
> Still needs lots of things sorted, like:
>
> Â- call_srcu()
> Â- ptl, irq and tlb-flush
> Â- a 2nd VM_FAULT_LOCK? return code to distuinguish between
> Â Âsimple retry and must take mmap_sem semantics?
>
> Comments?
> --
>
>

I looked over this patch series.
This series are most neat in things I have ever seen.
If we solve call_srcu problem, it would be good.

I will help you test this series in my machine to work well.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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