Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 14:04:58 EST


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> So I'd like to know what can we do to help to merge the 4 patches from
> Christoph in mainline, I'd appreciate comments on them so we can help
> to address any outstanding issue!

There are still some pending issues (RCU troubles). I will post V2 today.

> It's very important to have this code in 2.6.25 final. KVM requires
> mmu notifiers for reliable swapping, madvise/ballooning, ksm etc... so
> it's high priority to get something merged to provide this
> functionality regardless of its coding style ;).

We also need this urgently.
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