From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:36:35 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM, version 12 In-Reply-To: <20020123.112837.112624842.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/