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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: page faults
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:57:29 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14365.32809.373791.822355@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910291049300.17696-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:52:57 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

> Its about proper virtualization. Imagine if userland would have to
> negotate access to hard drives. 

As soon as you start to memory map the files, it does.  The kernel has
no business enforcing user-level transactions to virtual memory.

--Stephen
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      reply	other threads:[~1999-11-01 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-21 16:31 James Simmons
1999-10-21 19:40 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-22  0:47   ` Wang Yong
1999-10-22 13:06   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-22 14:59     ` James Simmons
1999-10-22 15:15       ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-22 17:35       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-22 23:31         ` James Simmons
1999-10-24 17:15           ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-25 17:27             ` William J. Earl
1999-10-26 13:50               ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-10-26 14:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-26 15:11                 ` James Simmons
1999-10-26 18:04                 ` William J. Earl
1999-10-26  9:05             ` Ralf Baechle
1999-10-29 14:52               ` James Simmons
1999-11-01 11:57                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]

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