From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Itai Nahshon <nahshon@actcom.co.il>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
paubert@iram.es, Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Swap shared pages (was: How to read-protect a vm_area?)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:41:20 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980225113925.376A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802242338.XAA03262@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> That is already scheduled as part of phase 4 of this work. The patch I
> have just posted is phase 2, modifying the swapper for shared pages.
> Phase three is to implement MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, and part four is
> to do much what you describe, proactively soft-swapping data out
Hmm, is there anything I can do to help with this, or
will that just confuse things ? :-(
If not, I'll be working on buffer/cache memory limits
so one file/process can't clog up all of memory (a'la
badblocks -w), of course with DU like tunability...
Rik.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-25 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199802192321.XAA06580@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
1998-02-20 5:41 ` How to read-protect a vm_area? Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-02-23 23:17 ` PATCH: Swap shared pages (was: How to read-protect a vm_area?) Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-02-23 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
1998-02-24 0:08 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-02-24 9:45 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-02-24 9:42 ` Rik van Riel
1998-02-24 23:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-02-25 10:41 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-02-25 19:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-02-25 22:05 ` Rik van Riel
1998-02-24 11:16 ` Thomas Sailer
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.980224152231.7112A-100000@renass3.u-strasbg.fr>
1998-02-24 23:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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