From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10440 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:07:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:05:21 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] In-Reply-To: <87d84kl49u.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Zlatko Calusic Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich , steve@netplus.net, brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Ben McCann , Alan Cox , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 12 Jan 1999, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > Could somebody spare a minute to explain why is that so, and what > needs to be done to make SHM swapping asynchronous? Maybe because nobody care about shm? I think shm can wait for 2.3 to be improved. > Also, while we're at MM fixes, I'm appending below a small patch that > will improve interactive feel. This is just in my latest arca patches as you have just noticed. Don't think that this thing make some difference though. But sometimes could improve performances and make tons of sense. Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org