It occurred to me that a simple way to improve objrmap performance would be to sort the vma chains off address_space by offset. Here's a patch that does it. Tests show no measureable cost, and it could significantly reduce the impact of the worst case scenario (100 mappings * 100 processes) we've all worried about. Dave McCracken ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059