From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:32:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM In-Reply-To: <20030703192750.GM23578@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: William Lee Irwin III , "Martin J. Bligh" , Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > that's the very old exploit that touches 1 page per pmd. > if you can't use a sane design it's not a kernel issue. Agreed, the kernel shouldn't have to go out of its way to give these applications good performance. On the other hand, I think the kernel should be able to _survive_ applications like this, reclaiming page tables when needed. -- Great minds drink alike. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org