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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: pipe/page fault oddness.
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 10:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141002082846.GA3259@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542C39E0.8030609@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 01:29:04PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 12:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, why can't we just do this, and throw away all the crap that
> > is "numa special case". This would make all the random games in
> > change_pte_range() just go away entirely, because the whole NUMA thing
> > really wouldn't be a special case for the pte AT ALL any more. All it
> > would be is that a pte could be marked PROT_NONE even if the
> > vma->vm_flags aren't.
> 
> That's what I suggested quite a while back, but IIRC either
> Peter or Mel brought up a reason why this was not possible.

Hey, I'm the one that did the numa faulting with PROTNONE to begin with.
Andrea and Mel (and possibly you) all didn't like that and did the per
arch pagetable nonensen :-) I've never understood why.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/27/76

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30  3:33 pipe/page fault oddness Dave Jones
2014-09-30  4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30  4:33   ` Dave Jones
     [not found]     ` <CA+55aFwxdOBKHwwp7Zq1k19mHCyHYmYqigCVt59AtB-P7Zva1w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-09-30 15:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:03         ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 16:07           ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:05         ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 16:22             ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:40               ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 16:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30 18:20                   ` Dave Jones
2014-09-30 18:58                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01  8:19                       ` Hugh Dickins
2014-10-01 16:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 16:18                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 17:29                             ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-02  8:28                               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-01 20:20                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-01 21:09                               ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-01 22:08                               ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-01 22:28                                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-02  3:32                                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02  8:03                                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-02 14:49                                       ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-01 22:42                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-02 14:25                                   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-02 16:01                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-02 16:35                                       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-02 15:04                                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02 16:10                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-03  5:00                                       ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-03 15:43                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-03 15:58                                           ` Dave Jones
2014-10-03 16:02                                             ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-02 12:45                             ` Mel Gorman
2014-10-06 19:18                               ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-10-07 12:45                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-08 10:37                                   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-10-02  8:47                           ` Hugh Dickins
2014-10-02 15:57                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-30  4:35   ` Al Viro

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