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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > I will submit pieces to mm depending on the 
> > outcome of our discussions.

> There's a ludicrous amount of MM work pending in -mm.  It would probably be
> less work at your end to see what ends up landing in 2.6.22-rc1.

I am aware of that and thats why I kept this against upstream. The need 
right now is for justification and explanation. I had to go 
through a head spinning series of VM layers to get an idea how to do 
this in a clean way and then had to make additional passes to do minimal 
modifications to get this working so that it is testable.
 
Performance tests please...