Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265256AbTGCSeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:34:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265257AbTGCSeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:34:50 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:17290 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265256AbTGCSet (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:34:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:48:25 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: William Lee Irwin III , "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: <20030703184825.GA17090@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030702214032.GH20413@holomorphy.com> <20030702220246.GS23578@dualathlon.random> <20030702221551.GH26348@holomorphy.com> <20030702222641.GU23578@dualathlon.random> <20030702231122.GI26348@holomorphy.com> <20030702233014.GW23578@dualathlon.random> <20030702235540.GK26348@holomorphy.com> <20030703113144.GY23578@dualathlon.random> <20030703114626.GP26348@holomorphy.com> <20030703125839.GZ23578@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030703125839.GZ23578@dualathlon.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 15 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > but I didn't hear any emulator developer ask for this feature yet 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. -- Jamie - 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/