Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264916AbTGBWEk (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:04:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264503AbTGBWDX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:03:23 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:57017 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264635AbTGBWBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2003 18:01:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:15:51 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM Message-ID: <20030702221551.GH26348@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrea Arcangeli , "Martin J. Bligh" , Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030701022516.GL3040@dualathlon.random> <20030702171159.GG23578@dualathlon.random> <461030000.1057165809@flay> <20030702174700.GJ23578@dualathlon.random> <20030702214032.GH20413@holomorphy.com> <20030702220246.GS23578@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030702220246.GS23578@dualathlon.random> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 653 Lines: 16 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. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/