Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1

[William Lee Irwin III]

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.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:23:11PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..)

I've got a relatively concrete notion GPFS is not particularly
meritorious. =( Perhaps invalid_mmap_range() would be better off with
a poster child that's taken a bath sometime in its life...


-- wli
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