Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13T06:53:47Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Then you just end up with the same thing, don't you?

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:50:20PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Well _you_ do, because that happens to be exactly what you want. Bill
> ends up with something that displays page_mapcount instead. And I
> end up with something that traverses LRU lists rather than pfns. And
> none of it goes in /proc/ or linux-2.6/.
> So it isn't really the same thing at all.

The EM guys aren't dealing with the database; they're dealing with some
enterprise management thingie that does things like control how many
client connections are allowed for each database instance. Unless
they're doing less than I expect, and are largely something like procps
on steroids and enterprise silliness.

-- wli