From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian <vrajesh@eecs.umich.edu>,
akpm@osdl.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remap file pages MAP_NONBLOCK fix
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:46:21 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309051545190.22540-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030905185056.GA3598@gtf.org>
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Or we could just kill remap_file_pages(), because it's a PITA to
> maintain and it has maybe 10 legitimate users in the entire world...
It has its uses. I just don't think it should support
a non-mlocked VMA or deal with files being truncated.
The remap_file_pages we have in Taroon is pretty light
weight. I hope the implementation in 2.6 will be
simplified too ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-05 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-05 18:31 Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2003-09-05 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-05 19:46 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-09-05 19:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-06 8:36 ` Ingo Molnar
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