Re: [PATCH] 2/5: Device-mapper: kcopyd

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 09:59:57 EST


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:18:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This pins at least 2MB of RAM up-front, even if devicemapper is not in use.
> Have you any plans to fix that up?

kcopyd used to create/destroy itself so it was only present while
it was being used. Nobody can remember why that got changed so we'll
try reimplementing it.

Alasdair
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