Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265279AbTGCTSb (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:18:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265269AbTGCTSa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:18:30 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-bos.redhat.com ([66.187.230.200]:19093 "EHLO chimarrao.boston.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264085AbTGCTS2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:18:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:32:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com 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 In-Reply-To: <20030703192750.GM23578@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 19 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > that's the very old exploit that touches 1 page per pmd. > if you can't use a sane design it's not a kernel issue. Agreed, the kernel shouldn't have to go out of its way to give these applications good performance. On the other hand, I think the kernel should be able to _survive_ applications like this, reclaiming page tables when needed. -- Great minds drink alike. - 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/