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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v5 0/3] fadvise: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
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Hello Andrea

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> wrote:
[...]
>  - Some of the routines to implement the generic interval tree has been taken
>   from the x86 PAT code, that uses interval trees to keep track of PAT ranges
>   (in the future it would be interesting to convert also the x86 PAT code to
>   use the generic interval tree implementation).
>
Perhaps the tree implemented in this work could also be used in tracking
regions in mm/hugetlb.c.

Thanks
Hillf