From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@npwt.net>,
Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap-ag.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Thread implementations...
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:09:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807010909.KAA00784@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96dg4.980630122740.23907D-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
Hi,
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:35:35 -0700 (PDT), Dean Gaudet
<dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> said:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> Not for very large files: the forget-behind is absolutely critical in
>> that case.
> I dunno why you're thinking of unmapping pages though... But you do
> want them to be dropped from memory when appropriate.
We want to *physically* unmap them from the page tables. You can't
evict the pages from cache if they are still physically mapped!
--Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-01 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.96dg4.980624025515.26983E-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
[not found] ` <199806241213.WAA10661@vindaloo.atnf.CSIRO.AU>
1998-06-24 22:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-24 23:41 ` Richard Gooch
1998-06-25 4:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-25 17:14 ` Todd Larason
1998-06-26 7:53 ` Christoph Rohland
1998-06-26 14:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-29 10:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-06-30 6:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-30 13:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-06-30 19:35 ` Dean Gaudet
1998-07-01 9:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1998-06-25 4:12 ` Dean Gaudet
1998-06-25 3:53 ` Richard Gooch
1998-06-25 11:32 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-06-25 21:24 ` Chris Wedgwood
1998-06-25 22:16 ` Richard Gooch
1998-06-25 4:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-25 11:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-06-25 20:31 ` Dean Gaudet
1998-06-30 6:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-06-30 19:30 Larry McVoy
1998-07-01 8:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-03 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-03 20:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-07-03 20:36 ` Rik van Riel
1998-07-04 16:37 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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