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To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Prefaulting for i/o buffers
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Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:
> I previously published the patches to convert i/o path to use VMIO,
> based on the Jeff Roberson proposal, see
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VM6. As a side effect, the VM6 fixed the
> deadlock. Since that work is very intrusive and did not got any
> follow-up, it get stalled.

If it works, and you commit it now, we have at least a year to shake it
down before the 10.0 release cycle...

DES
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