Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, gup: introduce concept of "foreign" get_user_pages()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 08:07:05 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Also, please split this into three patches:
>
> - one patch adds the _foreign() GUP variant and applies it to code that uses it
> on remote tasks.

This reminds me: please also rename the new API to get_user_pages_remote(), as
remote/local is the phrase we typically use in MM code.

Thanks,

Ingo