From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263824AbUEXB6x (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263826AbUEXB6x (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:22992 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263824AbUEXB6u (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:50 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:56:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: William Lee Irwin III , Horst von Brand , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1 In-Reply-To: <40B1180F.8000501@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <200405231619.i4NGJBe18903@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> <40B0EE6C.70400@pobox.com> <20040523211154.GC1833@holomorphy.com> <40B1180F.8000501@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 23 May 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > I wouldn't qualify either of the major VM patch series merged as > > rewrites. I saw: > > (1) move unmapping function/helpers to different algorithm to save space > > (2) NUMA API and support functions > > You missed the pte chains going away, a fundamental change in the way > reverse mapping is done? It's not "fundamental", in that the reverse mapping is still done. It's just done in a slightly different way. Going to rmap was a _fundamental_ change to how we did VM. In contrast, this was just an "implementation detail". Linus