Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: > nice one! I suspect we could simplify some of the less > performance-critical open-coded pagetable walker loops in the kernel > with this? (i'm not even sure it's all that much of a performance loss > to pass a function pointer around - would be nice to convert say >

Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given > > function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm > > structure. This is a generic alternative to

Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given > function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm > structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux > idiomatic pagetable walking

Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in

Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting

Re: [patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-16 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ingo Molnar wrote: nice one! I suspect we could simplify some of the less performance-critical open-coded pagetable walker loops in the kernel with this? (i'm not even sure it's all that much of a performance loss to pass a function pointer around - would be nice to convert say mprotect()

[patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.

[patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-03-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.

[patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-02-27 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.

[patch 15/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.

2007-02-27 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.