Re: TASK_SIZE is variable.

Andi Kleen
2005-01-28T06:40:48Z

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a patch that I did recently to reduce the overhead of
> > > clear_page_tables() when using 64k pages on ppc64. It keeps a record
> > > of the maximum address that has been used in each mm_struct. With
> > > this we can kill MM_VM_SIZE.
> >
> > And I sent the 2.6.10 version of the patch, unfortunately. Here is a
> > patch against current BK.
>
> OK.. I'll drop Anton's patch:

Frankly Anton's patch seems simpler and equivalent to me.

-Andi