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Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Subject: Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM
- From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:54:31 -0700
- Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> but I didn't hear any emulator developer ask for this feature yet
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:48:25PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> No, but there was a meek request to get writable/read-only protection
> working with remap_file_pages, so that a garbage collector can change
> protection on individual pages without requiring O(nr_pages) vmas.
> Perhaps that should have nothing to do with remap_file_pages, though.
I call that application #2.
-- wli
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