From: Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@googlemail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Till Smejkal <till.smejkal@googlemail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>,
Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:50:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316175033.pgkep75iszqy3csb@arch-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703161841220.3586@nanos>
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Till Smejkal wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Why do we need yet another mechanism to represent something which looks
> > > like a file instead of simply using existing mechanisms and extend them?
> >
> > You are right. I also recognized during the discussion with Andy, Chris,
> > Matthew, Luck, Rich and the others that there are already other
> > techniques in the Linux kernel that can achieve the same functionality
> > when combined. As I said also to the others, I will drop the VAS segments
> > for future versions. The first class virtual address space feature was
> > the more interesting part of the patchset anyways.
>
> While you are at it, could you please drop this 'first class' marketing as
> well? It has zero technical value, really.
Yes of course. I am sorry for the trouble that I caused already.
Thanks
Till
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[not found] <CALCETrXfGgxaLivhci0VL=wUaWAnBiUXC47P7TUaEuOYV_-X_g@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-15 22:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces Till Smejkal
2017-03-16 8:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-16 17:29 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-16 17:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-16 17:50 ` Till Smejkal [this message]
[not found] <20170315220952.GA1435@intel.com>
2017-03-15 23:18 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <20170315194723.GJ1693@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
2017-03-15 21:30 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <8d9333d6-2f81-a9de-484e-e1d655e1d3c3@mellanox.com>
2017-03-14 21:14 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <CALCETrXKvNWv1OtoSo_HWf5ZHSvyGS1NsuQod6Zt+tEg3MT5Sg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-14 16:12 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] ` <CALCETrX5gv+zdhOYro4-u3wGWjVCab28DFHPSm5=BVG_hKxy3A@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-15 16:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-03-15 19:44 ` Till Smejkal
[not found] <fa60d132-0eef-4350-3c88-1558f447a48f@twiddle.net>
2017-03-14 1:31 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-13 22:14 Till Smejkal
2017-03-14 0:18 ` Richard Henderson
2017-03-14 0:39 ` Till Smejkal
2017-03-14 0:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-03-14 2:07 ` Till Smejkal
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