From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from snowcrash.cymru.net (snowcrash.cymru.net [163.164.160.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23235 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:43:48 -0500 Message-Id: From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:38:42 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Jan 24, 99 04:27:51 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sct@redhat.com, werner@suse.de, andrea@e-mind.com, riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl, Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, saw@msu.ru, steve@netplus.net, damonbrent@earthlink.net, reese@isn.net, kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se, bmccann@indusriver.com, bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > There are real cases where grab large linear block is needed. > > Nobody has so far shown a reasonable implementation where this would be > possible. Thats as maybe. However someone needs to find a way to do it. Right now I can run a matrox meteor on netbsd,freebsd,openbsd,windows95, nt but not Linux Thats not meant as a flippant remark - its something to be stuck on the 2.3 problem chart. Its just a question of who out there is sitting on the solution -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/