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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:23:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3051330941.1019409833@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CC33CDF.7F48A5B3@earthlink.net>

> I was just reading Bill's reply regaring rmap, and it
> seems to me that rmap is the most obvious and clean
> way to handle unmapping pages. So now I wonder why
> it wasn't done that way from the beginning?

Because it costs something to maintain the reverse map.
If the cost exceeds the benefit, it's not worth it. That's
why a bunch of us are working on bringing the cost down.
At the moment the cost is especially high on larger machines,
but we're getting there ... quickly ;-)

Martin.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-21 22:27 Joseph A Knapka
2002-04-22  0:23 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-04-22  2:13   ` Joseph A Knapka
2002-04-22  5:46     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-23 22:40     ` Christian Smith
2002-04-24  0:46       ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 10:50         ` Christian Smith
2002-04-24 14:20           ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 14:37             ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-24 14:52               ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 15:16                 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-24 18:31                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-25 15:19             ` Christian Smith
2002-05-05 19:04           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 18:37             ` Christian Smith
2002-05-07 19:23               ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:25                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 19:47                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:50                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 23:02                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08  0:08                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-08  5:08                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-08  7:59                     ` Momchil Velikov
2002-05-08 14:33                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08 14:43                         ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-08 16:06                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08 16:10                             ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:49                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:53                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 19:43                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:51                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 23:11                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 21:21                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 23:15                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:37               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:47                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-05 18:38         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-05 22:23           ` Rik van Riel

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