From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:44:49 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/2] return values shrink_dcache_memory etc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ed Tomlinson List-ID: 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 -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". 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/