Re: What to expect with the 2.6 VM

William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-02T22:15:51Z

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:02:46AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Now releasing the pte_chain during mlock would be a generic feature
> orthogonal with the above I know, but I doubt you really care about it
> for all other usages (also given the nearly unfixable complexity it
> would introduce in munlock).

What complexity? Just unmap it if you can't allocate a pte_chain and
park it on the LRU.

-- wli