Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

Rik van Riel
2005-05-05T01:27:41Z

On Wed, 4 May 2005, William Jordan wrote:
> On 5/3/05, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
> > Rather than replacing the fully-registered pages with pages of zeros,
> > you could simply unmap them.
>
> I don't like this option. It is nearly free to map all of the pages to
> the zero-page. You never have to allocate a page if the user never
> writes to it.

Unmapping should work fine, as long as the VMA flags are
set appropriately. The page fault handler can take care
of the rest...

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