Re: the new VMt

Rik van Riel
2000-09-25T16:28:42Z

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Another thing I would worry about are ports with multiple user page
> > sizes in 2.5. Another ugly case is the x86-64 port which has 4K pages
> > but may likely need a 16K kernel stack due to the 64bit stack bloat.
>
> yep, but these cases are not affected, i think in the order != 0
> case we should return NULL if a certain number of iterations did
> not yield any free page.

Indeed. You're right here.

regards,

Rik
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