From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:41:20 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: PATCH: Swap shared pages (was: How to read-protect a vm_area?) In-Reply-To: <199802242338.XAA03262@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , Linus Torvalds , Itai Nahshon , Alan Cox , paubert@iram.es, Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. +-----------------------------+------------------------------+ | For Linux mm-patches, go to | "I'm busy managing memory.." | | my homepage (via LinuxHQ). | H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl | | ...submissions welcome... | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | +-----------------------------+------------------------------+