Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423028AbWCXEqQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:46:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423018AbWCXEqO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:46:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:2176 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423007AbWCXEpd (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:45:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:45:15 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@cuia.boston.redhat.com To: Christoph Lameter cc: Stone Wang , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: 613 Lines: 16 On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The result of not scanning mlocked pages will be that mmapped files will > not be updated unless either the process terminates or msync() is called. That's ok. Light swapping on a system with non-mlocked mmapped pages has the same result, since we won't scan mapped pages most of the time... -- All Rights Reversed - 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/