From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:45:15 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Stone Wang , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The result of not scanning mlocked pages will be that mmapped files will > not be updated unless either the process terminates or msync() is called. That's ok. Light swapping on a system with non-mlocked mmapped pages has the same result, since we won't scan mapped pages most of the time... -- All Rights Reversed -- 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: email@kvack.org