Re: [PATCH 0/4] munmap: Flexible mem unmap operation interface forscheduling latency

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 25 2011 - 15:51:14 EST


On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:44 +0900, Geunsik Lim wrote:
> Originally, We aim to not hold locks for too long (for scheduling latency reasons).
> So zap pages in ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE byte counts.
> This means we need to return the ending mmu_gather to the caller.

Please have a look at the mmu_gather rewrite that hit -mm last week,
that completely does away with ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE and renders these patches
obsolete.

Also, -rt doesn't care since it already has preemptible mmu_gather.

Furthermore:

> +L: linux-rt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

is complete crap, linux-rt-users is _NOT_ a development list.

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