Re: anon_vma RFC2

[Chris Friesen]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> > I think your approach could work (reverse map by having separate address
> > spaces for unrelated processes), but I don't see any good "page->index"  
> > allocation scheme that is implementable.

> Note that since we count page->index in PAGE_SIZE unit we
> have PAGE_SIZE times as much space as a process can take,
> so we definately have enough address space to come up with
> a creative allocation scheme.

What happens when you have more than PAGE_SIZE processes running?

Chris

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