From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754411Ab1FUVnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:43:07 -0400 Received: from sous-sol.org ([216.99.217.87]:42934 "EHLO sequoia.sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751613Ab1FUVnE (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:43:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:42:33 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Nai Xia Cc: Andrew Morton , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Chris Wright , Rik van Riel , linux-mm , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages scanning Message-ID: <20110621214233.GN25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <201106212055.25400.nai.xia@gmail.com> <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > This patch makes the page_check_address() can validate if a subpage is > in its place in a huge page pointed by the address. This can be useful when > ksm does not split huge pages when looking up the subpages one by one. Just a quick heads up...this patch does not compile by itself. Could you do a little patch cleanup? Start with just making sure the Subject: is correct for each patch. Then make sure the 3 are part of same series. And finally, make sure each is stand alone and complilable on its own. thanks, -chris From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4646D90013A for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:42:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:42:33 -0700 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] ksm: take dirty bit as reference to avoid volatile pages scanning Message-ID: <20110621214233.GN25383@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <201106212055.25400.nai.xia@gmail.com> <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106212126.06726.nai.xia@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Nai Xia Cc: Andrew Morton , Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Chris Wright , Rik van Riel , linux-mm , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel * Nai Xia (nai.xia@gmail.com) wrote: > This patch makes the page_check_address() can validate if a subpage is > in its place in a huge page pointed by the address. This can be useful when > ksm does not split huge pages when looking up the subpages one by one. Just a quick heads up...this patch does not compile by itself. Could you do a little patch cleanup? Start with just making sure the Subject: is correct for each patch. Then make sure the 3 are part of same series. And finally, make sure each is stand alone and complilable on its own. thanks, -chris -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org