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Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM

To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:15:51 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:02:46AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Now releasing the pte_chain during mlock would be a generic feature
> orthogonal with the above I know, but I doubt you really care about it
> for all other usages (also given the nearly unfixable complexity it
> would introduce in munlock).

What complexity? Just unmap it if you can't allocate a pte_chain and
park it on the LRU.


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