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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Snapshot of shared page tables
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:51:41 +0200
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 16:57, Dave McCracken wrote:
> 
> Ok, here it is.  This patch works for my simple tests, both under UP and
> SMP, including under memory pressure.  I'd appreciate anyone who'd like to
> take it and beat on it.  Please let me know of any problems you find.
> 
> The patch is against this morning's 2.5 BK tree.

Interesting, you substituted pte_page_lock(ptepage) for mm->page_table_lock.
Could you wax poetic about that, please?

-- 
Daniel