Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl_setlease defies lease_init assumptions

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> Can't you use sparsemem instead? It solves the same problem without the
> magic faulting, doesn't it?

But sparsemem has more complex table lookups. Ultimately IA64 will move 
to sparsemem (I think) but we are not there yet and we would like to be 
sure that there are no performance regressions with that move.

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