From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM, version 12
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:36:35 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0201231735540.32617-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020123.112837.112624842.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> If there is some specific magic I'm missing, could you
> please point me to the code I'm overlooking ? ;)
>
> Look at what get_pgd_slow() in pgalloc.h does, this is the
> case where it isn't going to the cache and it is really allocating the
> memory.
> Hmmm... maybe the "we can fault on kernel mappings" thing takes
> care of this because kernel PMDs can only appear, not go away.
OK, so only the _pgd_ quicklist is questionable and the
_pte_ quicklist is fine ?
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-23 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-23 17:14 Rik van Riel
2002-01-23 18:44 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-23 18:57 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-23 19:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-23 19:22 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-23 19:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-23 19:36 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-01-23 20:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-23 22:12 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-24 3:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-24 3:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-23 19:15 ` Robert Love
2002-01-23 19:02 Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-23 19:05 ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-23 19:12 ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-23 19:11 Badari Pulavarty
2002-01-23 19:20 ` Rik van Riel
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