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Subject: Re: Users locking memory using futexes
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:13, Rusty Russell wrote:
> It's bounded by one page per fd.  If you want better than that, then
> yes we'll need to thihk harder.

one page per fd is "unbounded" to all intents and purposes. Doing the
page accounting per user doesnt look too scary if we ignore stuff like
page tables for a first cut.

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