Re: 230-objrmap fixes for 2.6.3-mjb2

From: Dave McCracken
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 11:03:03 EST



--On Wednesday, March 03, 2004 07:46:32 -0800 "Martin J. Bligh"
<mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There was talk at one point of moving the "unswappable" state down into
> the struct page. Is that still realistic? It would seem rather more
> efficient, but I forget what problem we ran into with it.

It'd mean the page struct would have to have a count of the number of
mlock()ed regions it belongs to, and we'd have to update all the pages each
time we call it.

Dave McCracken

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