Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 10 authors, 2013-01-24

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()

From: Chris Metcalf <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-10 15:13:14
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On 12/6/2012 11:09 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific
virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose
and more efficient, because it uses a rbtree.
So change it.
If you get an Acked-by for the x86 change, feel free to apply it to the tile file as well.  You'll note that for tile it's under an #if 0, which in retrospect I shouldn't have pushed anyway.  So I don't feel strongly :-)

FWIW, the change certainly seems at least plausible to me.

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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