From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752876AbYKNEo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751392AbYKNEot (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:44:49 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35196 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751206AbYKNEos (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:44:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:44:30 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [rfc] x86: optimise page fault path a little In-Reply-To: <20081114033041.GD24414@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20081113072821.GB2946@wotan.suse.de> <20081114015817.GC5063@wotan.suse.de> <20081114024347.GB24414@wotan.suse.de> <20081114033041.GD24414@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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 Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Oh OK. I am going to add those changes that you suggested (in fact, I > already have). I just thought for some reason you wanted it to make > further cleanups or something. No, I think it really looked like a potentially very nice cleanup already, with just a few nagging things that made me say "that's worse than it used to be". Of course, it would be _really_ nice to see it as a series of smaller patches splitting things up a bit more incrementally, but I guess it's not a huge one even as-is. Linus