Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265263AbTGCSki (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:40:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265264AbTGCSki (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:40:38 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:65217 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265263AbTGCSkb (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:40:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:54:31 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , "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: <20030703185431.GQ26348@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Jamie Lokier , Andrea Arcangeli , "Martin J. Bligh" , Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <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> <20030703184825.GA17090@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030703184825.GA17090@mail.jlokier.co.uk> 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: 723 Lines: 18 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 - 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/