RE: [PATCH 0/2] put_user_page*(): start converting the call sites

[David Laight]

From: john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 04 December 2018 00:17
> 
> Summary: I'd like these two patches to go into the next convenient cycle.
> I *think* that means 4.21.
> 
> Details
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> At the Linux Plumbers Conference, we talked about this approach [1], and
> the primary lingering concern was over performance. Tom Talpey helped me
> through a much more accurate run of the fio performance test, and now
> it's looking like an under 1% performance cost, to add and remove pages
> from the LRU (this is only paid when dealing with get_user_pages) [2]. So
> we should be fine to start converting call sites.
> 
> This patchset gets the conversion started. Both patches already had a fair
> amount of review.

Shouldn't the commit message contain actual details of the change?

	David

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