From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261824AbVBXF7o (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:59:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261825AbVBXF7o (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:59:44 -0500 Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.115]:37292 "HELO smtp018.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261824AbVBXF7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:59:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators From: Nick Piggin To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen , "David S. Miller" , benh@kernel.crashing.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <4214A1EC.4070102@yahoo.com.au> <4214A437.8050900@yahoo.com.au> <20050217194336.GA8314@wotan.suse.de> <1108680578.5665.14.camel@gaston> <20050217230342.GA3115@wotan.suse.de> <20050217153031.011f873f.davem@davemloft.net> <20050217235719.GB31591@wotan.suse.de> <4218840D.6030203@yahoo.com.au> <421B0163.3050802@yahoo.com.au> <421D1737.1050501@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:59:37 +1100 Message-Id: <1109224777.5177.33.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 05:12 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OK after sleeping on it, I'm warming to your way. > > > > I don't think it makes something like David's modifications any > > easier, but mine didn't go a long way to that end either. And > > being a more incremental approach gives us more room to move in > > future (for example, maybe toward something that really *will* > > accommodate the bitmap walking code nicely). > > I'll take a quick look at David's today. > Just so long as we don't make them harder. > No, I think we may want to move to something better abstracted: it makes things sufficiently complex that you wouldn't want to have it open coded everywhere. But no, you're not making it harder than the present situation. > > So I'd be pretty happy for you to queue this up with Andrew for > > 2.6.12. Anyone else? > > Oh, okay, thanks. You weren't very happy with p??_limit(addr, end), > and good naming is important to me. I didn't care for your tentative > p??_span or p??_span_end. Would p??_end be better? p??_enda would > be fun for one of them... > pud_addr_end? http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.