Re: PATCH: 2.5.66 incremental (#4: Discontiguous patches & Dynamic PageFlag Bitmap)

From: Nigel Cunningham (ncunningham@clear.net.nz)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 14:33:26 EST

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On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 01:09, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Drivers should never ever need to set themselves nosave....

Okay then. I'll make NoSave use the same scheme. I was mostly wondering
about shared memory video cards, but in that case it mostly just seems
to be a waste of time saving the pages - it doesn't cause problems.

> It contains the same double pointers and the same
> hard-limit-on-#pages-to-be-saved.

Sorry. I forgot about addressing that issue. I'll give one of your
suggestions a go when I find the time.

Regards,

Nigel

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