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 TAA05208 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:25:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 01:25:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <199904052024.QAA29035@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Horst von Brand Cc: Mark Hemment , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Horst von Brand wrote: >If you link new pages in at the start (would make sense, IMHO, since they >will probably be used soon) you can just use the pointer as cookie. You can have two points of the kernel that are sleeping waiting to alloc memory for a cache page at the same time. Andrea Arcangeli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/