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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
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Subject: Re: Resurrecting the VM_PINNED discussion
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Eric B Munson wrote:
> All,
> 
> After LSF/MM last year Peter revived a patch set that would create
> infrastructure for pinning pages as opposed to simply locking them.
> AFAICT, there was no objection to the set, it just needed some help
> from the IB folks.
> 
> Am I missing something about why it was never merged? 

Because I got lost in IB code and didn't manage to bribe anyone into
fixing that for me.