From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/2] return values shrink_dcache_memory etc
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:44:49 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207221043050.3086-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207221029590.3086-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Apart from both of these we'll also need code to garbage collect
> empty page tables so users can't clog up memory by mmaping a page
> every 4 MB ;)
Btw, I've started work on this code already.
Putting the dcache/icache pages on the LRU list in the way
Linus wanted is definately a lower priority thing for me at
this point, especially considering the fact that Ed Tomlinson's
way of having these pages on the LRU seems to work just fine ;)
regards,
Rik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-20 19:40 Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 20:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 21:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 5:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 5:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-22 5:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 6:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-22 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 7:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-22 14:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 13:34 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-22 13:44 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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