From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758816AbYEHDKw (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753660AbYEHDKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:10:38 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:45511 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405AbYEHDKg (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:10:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 20:10:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Andrew Morton , steiner@sgi.com, holt@sgi.com, npiggin@suse.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kanojsarcar@yahoo.com, rdreier@cisco.com, swise@opengridcomputing.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, hugh@veritas.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, aliguori@us.ibm.com, chrisw@redhat.com, marcelo@kvack.org, dada1@cosmosbay.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem In-Reply-To: <20080508025652.GW8276@duo.random> Message-ID: References: <20080507212650.GA8276@duo.random> <20080507222205.GC8276@duo.random> <20080507153103.237ea5b6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080507224406.GI8276@duo.random> <20080507155914.d7790069.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080507233953.GM8276@duo.random> <20080508025652.GW8276@duo.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > to the sort function to break the loop. After that we remove the 512 > vma cap and mm_lock is free to run as long as it wants like > /dev/urandom, nobody can care less how long it will run before > returning as long as it reacts to signals. Look Linus has told you what to do. Why not simply do it?