Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] mmu notifier provide context informations

From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Feb 19 2019 - 15:16:10 EST


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:04 PM <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since last version [4] i added the extra bits needed for the change_pte
> optimization (which is a KSM thing). Here i am not posting users of
> this, they will be posted to the appropriate sub-systems (KVM, GPU,
> RDMA, ...) once this serie get upstream. If you want to look at users
> of this see [5] [6]. If this gets in 5.1 then i will be submitting
> those users for 5.2 (including KVM if KVM folks feel comfortable with
> it).

The users look small and straightforward. Why not await acks and
reviewed-by's for the users like a typical upstream submission and
merge them together? Is all of the functionality of this
infrastructure consumed by the proposed users? Last time I checked it
was only a subset.