Re: anon_vma RFC2

Rik van Riel
2004-03-13T14:43:41Z

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So let's make it clear: if we have an object-based reverse mapping, it
> should cover all reasonable cases, and in particular, it should NOT have
> rare fallbacks to code that thus never gets any real testing.

Absolutely agreed. And with Rajesh's code it should be possible
to get object-based rmap right, not vulnerable to the scalability
issues demonstrated by Ingo's test programs.

Whether we go with mm-based or vma-based, I don't particularly
care either. As long as the code is nice...

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