Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5

Horst von Brand
1999-04-05T23:40:45Z

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> >If you link new pages in at the start (would make sense, IMHO, since they
> >will probably be used soon) you can just use the pointer as cookie.

> You can have two points of the kernel that are sleeping waiting to alloc
> memory for a cache page at the same time.

So what? One wakes up, finds the same pointer it stashed away ==> Installs
new page (changing pointer) via short way. Second wakes up, finds pointer
changed ==> goes long way to do its job.

Or am I overlooking something stupid?
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