From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA06709 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:03:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DFD266A.422CB70C@digeo.com> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:03:38 -0800 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: freemaps References: <3DFBF26B.47C04A6@digeo.com> <3DFC455E.1FD92CBC@digeo.com> <20021216005103.GF2690@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Ingo Molnar , "Frederic Rossi (LMC)" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:03:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > - How does it play with non-linear mappings? > > It doesn't care; they're just vma's parked on a virtual address range > like the rest of them. > But the searching needs are different. If someone has a nonlinear mmap of the 0-1M region of a file and then requests an mmap of the 4-5M region, that can just be tacked onto the 0-1M mapping's vma (can't it?). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/