Re: [RFC] Distributed mmap API

Andrew Morton
2004-03-03T03:15:39Z

Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> wrote:
>
> Here is a rearranged zap_pte_range that avoids any operations for out-of-range
> pfns.

Please remind us why Linux needs this patch?

> +static void invalidate_mmap_range_list(struct list_head *head,
> + unsigned long const hba, unsigned long const hlen, int all)
> {

I forget what `all' does? anon+swapcache as well as pagecache?

A bit of API documentation here would be appropriate.