From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@googlemail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>,
Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:42:39 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703161841220.3586@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316172909.ux4u7dbspwlynsce@arch-dev>
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Till Smejkal wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Why do we need yet another mechanism to represent something which looks
> > like a file instead of simply using existing mechanisms and extend them?
>
> You are right. I also recognized during the discussion with Andy, Chris,
> Matthew, Luck, Rich and the others that there are already other
> techniques in the Linux kernel that can achieve the same functionality
> when combined. As I said also to the others, I will drop the VAS segments
> for future versions. The first class virtual address space feature was
> the more interesting part of the patchset anyways.
While you are at it, could you please drop this 'first class' marketing as
well? It has zero technical value, really.
Thanks,
tglx
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[not found] <CALCETrXfGgxaLivhci0VL=wUaWAnBiUXC47P7TUaEuOYV_-X_g@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-15 22:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces Till Smejkal
2017-03-16 8:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-16 17:29 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-16 17:42 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-03-16 17:50 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <20170315220952.GA1435@intel.com>
2017-03-15 23:18 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <20170315194723.GJ1693@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
2017-03-15 21:30 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <8d9333d6-2f81-a9de-484e-e1d655e1d3c3@mellanox.com>
2017-03-14 21:14 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <CALCETrXKvNWv1OtoSo_HWf5ZHSvyGS1NsuQod6Zt+tEg3MT5Sg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-14 16:12 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] ` <CALCETrX5gv+zdhOYro4-u3wGWjVCab28DFHPSm5=BVG_hKxy3A@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-15 16:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-03-15 19:44 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <fa60d132-0eef-4350-3c88-1558f447a48f@twiddle.net>
2017-03-14 1:31 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-13 22:14 Till Smejkal
2017-03-14 0:18 ` Richard Henderson
2017-03-14 0:39 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-14 0:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-03-14 2:07 ` Till Smejkal
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