From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl (root@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.19.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05354 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:40:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199904052337.TAA32120@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Subject: Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Apr 1999 01:25:15 +0200." Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 19:37:13 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Horst von Brand , Mark Hemment , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrea Arcangeli said: > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Horst von Brand wrote: > >If you link new pages in at the start (would make sense, IMHO, since they > >will probably be used soon) you can just use the pointer as cookie. > You can have two points of the kernel that are sleeping waiting to alloc > memory for a cache page at the same time. So what? One wakes up, finds the same pointer it stashed away ==> Installs new page (changing pointer) via short way. Second wakes up, finds pointer changed ==> goes long way to do its job. Or am I overlooking something stupid? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/