Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 17:56:52 EST


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> But why does _anybody_ (why does Christoph's patches) need to invalidate
> when they are going to be more permissive? This should be done lazily by
> the driver, I would have thought.

Correct. If you find such places then we can avoid the invalidates there.

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