Re: page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64

Andrew Morton
2004-08-28T03:42:41Z

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> So I think the move to atomic for rss acceptable?

Short-term, yes. Longer term (within 12 months), no - 50-bit addresses on
power5 will cause it to overflow.

We may as well fix it up now, but let's set that aside during consideration
of the rest of your patch.